Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1951 — Page 16

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A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER : ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Waiting for Bad News WE ARE still creeping toward preparedness. We are still feeling our way along, with the tired old guns-and-butter approach,’ striving for guns while we keep our butter. ; . We are still playing a dangerous guessing game—guessing that Korea is only an isolated incident, that we can stop any further Russian aggression with a set of blueprints for rearming. We still hope to turn out enough planes and weapons to convince Russia that we mean to enforce the peace—but we hesitate to dig deeper into the civilian supply of materials. Rather than disturb the civilian economy too greatly, we undertake only a slow, partial mobilization, never giving up the illusory hope that no more will be necessary. That was the policy established soon after the “police action” began in Korea 17 months ago. And now it is paying off—harshly and dearly. J In terms of “hardware” for defense, we're running perilously behind. ;

THOSE GRIM, disturbing facts are told in a Washington dispatch today from Charles Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer (on page 1). Our air superiority in Korea is threatened because we haven't turned out enough new planes. We're still using B-29's, outmoded now by Russian jets which are darkening Korean skies in greater numbers almost daily.

American planes ordered immediately ‘after Korea won't be ready until next year; and it may be a year before we have enough jet bombers to replace the B-29’s. Of other post-war weapons, we've had only a token output. But we're still turning out automobiles—a million new cars are due in the first three months of 1952. And radios, televisions, refrigerators and washing machines. The con-sumer-goods industries are getting nearly 60 per cent of the steel they were using before Korea. "The civilian economy must be kept strong, in the view of the administration planners, who are gambling on the hope that the war won't spread until we're ready to go into all-out defense production. Meantime we're trying to put out the fires wherever they start around the world with too little, and it could be too late.

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WE KNOW now that Russian aggression can’t be placated, or bought off. Only America has the potential power to convince the Kremlin's rulers that their ambitions can lead them to disaster. But complacency and wishful thinking still rule in Washington. ’ “Shame on you Athenians,” orated the long-dead Demosthenes. “The strongest of all the Greeks, in ships, cavalry, infantry and revenue, and you do not make the best of them. If you hear that (the enemy) has attacked the Chaerena, you send help there; if he is at Thermopylae, you run there; and if he turns aside you follow him, to right or left, as if you were acting on his orders. Never a fixed

plan, never any precautions; you wait for the bad news be-

fore you act.” Those words are just as appropriate today. We wait for the bad news before we act. : Meanwhile, some of our top officials practice the old art of—

Trying to Kid Us

ONLY LAST week, Maj. Gen. George H. Olmsted, director of the Office of Military Assistance, had the audacity to tell the public that everything is up to date, or better, on arms shipments to the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO). : He did this, gratuitously, in the face of the fact that one of the main purposes of Gen. Eisenhower's recent emergency visit to Washington was to speed up arms deliveries. And that this is the purpose of current conferences in Paris of Defense Secretary Lovett and W. Averell Harriman, director of the Mutual Security Agency. Now the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, which has been doing a top job of exposing shortcomings in the defense program, has nailed Gen. Olmsted in his duplicity. “Apparently,” says Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic chairman of the committee, “when original schedules

for arms shipments to NATO countries broke down, the

Office of Military Assistance found a simple solution to the _ problem. “It merely established new schedules which it knew could be met and then blithely announced that everything was ahead of schedule.”

= - - » » . DETAILED information on the production of specific weapons necessarily is secret. Giving it to the public would be giving it to the Russians. The Johnson committee, in its watchdog capacity, had authentic and secret details of the breakdown in the defense buildup for Europe. Yet Gen. Olmsted, the Senator charges, revealed “carefully selected portions” of this secret infor-

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mation to suit his own convenience. In other words, to -

cover up. This is what happens when a host of government officials and bureaucrats are given blanket discretion to decide what the public may know or may not. That's what President Truman's recent “security” order did. No wonder Sen. Johnson comments: “This is an outstanding example of the type of thing that has created widespread suspicion concerning the integrity of our government.” :

Man Wanted : ,

PRESIDENT. TRUMAN and Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson are said to be on a hunt for a man to succeed Economic Stabilizer Erie Johnston. Mr. Johnston has resigned, effective Nov. 30. : Looking for a man to lock the has been stolen, eh?

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TWO-FOOTED AMERICAN BEASTS ve ; By Frederick C. Woltman > Reds Spin Horrible Atrocity Tales About

AMERICANS were horrified by the Army report that the Communists have murllered at least 6270 captured U, 8. troops in Korea, The American people would be just as shocked if they could follow the atrocity tales regularly dished up: by the Soviet press and radio about American troops.

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THESE stories are so obviously trumped up, that nobody in .the free world would put an ounce of credence in them, But they represent the side of the picture that's exclusively fed the

vast slice of the earth's population behind the:

Iron Curtain or influenced by the Communist propaganda machine, The Army report on Red atrocities, it is safe to say, never will reach the Communist countries, Instead, the stories they get are of rapes, killings and bestialities “unparalleled in history” and prepetrated by the’ “two-footed American beasts in Korea.”

RED MURDER . . . By J. M. Daniel Hanley’s Record Backs Charges

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — Col. James M. Hanley Jr. has a personal record that appears to support the integrity of his charges that the Communists have wantonly murdered thousands of Americans in Korea. He has both civilian and military law backgrounds. In World War II, he’ commanded a battalion of the famous 442d Infantry Regiment — the Japanese-American ‘go-for-broke” outfit that was festooned with awards and glory for Its fighting record. Col. Hanley was born in 1905, in Mandan, N. D.,, and did.a peacetime Army hitch from 1923 to 1926. He took an AB degree from Union College, New York, in 1928 and a law degree from the University of Chicago in T9831, and

practiced law in North Dakota, where his fa- .

ther was.a circuit judge. In October, 1941, he ré-entered the Army and became a machine gun instructor at Ft. Benning, Ga.—his father had taught machine gunners in World War I. In early 1943, he took command of the 442d’'s Second Battalion at Camp Shelby, Miss.

Went to Italy WHILE he was at Camp Shelby, his Japa-nese-American ‘troops were assigned to guard 1800 German prisoners of war, originally members of Rommel's Afrika Korps. One chore was watching the Nazis while they helped Alabama peanut growers harvest a crop rotting for lack of farm labor. Col. Hanley then had to familiarize himself with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war captives. These are the conventions he says have been violated by the Chinese and North Horeans. In May, 1944, Col. Hanley and his JapaneseAmericans went to Italy, then later into Southern France. In Italy and France the Nisei combat team picked up more awards than any other ground unit of the U. 8. Army. One feat was the rescue of a “lost battalion” of Texans cut off in the Vosges Mountains. The governor of Texas made every member of the JapaneseAmerican unit an honorary \Texan. Col. Hanley's decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster.

Premeditated Cruelty COL. HANLEY’S friends say his combat experience qualifies him to distinguish between the slaughter that occurs in the heat of battle and the premeditated cruelty or neglect of civilized standards which he has charged to the Reds. After the war Col. Hanley was sent home to North Dakota and lost a race for Congress. In 1947, he returned to the Army and was assigned to the Judge Advocate General's Office in Washington. He worked there on contract appeals and in December, 1947, was assigned to an assistant-secretary’s office as a member of the Armed Services Board on contract appeals, In August. 1950, he went to the Far East command in Tokyo as assistant judge advocate general, still on contracts. Last June 1, he was named chief of the War Crimes Division at Tokyo. On Sept. 14 he was assigned to Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea, on ‘indefinite temporary duty.”

Views on the News

PRESIDENT TRUMAN says his 1948 Fair Deal planks will be put back into the 1952 Democratic platform. Maybe that explains why he has been saving them. . o O @ SECRETARY OF STATE A€HESON told the United Na‘lons Paris meeting that the conduct of Chinese Reds was ‘“sub-barbarian.” A Korean report’ on shooting prisoners proves it. Then we are asked to doubt it. This administration must be building up St. Vitus as the patron of the United States. = Bb & SOUTHERNERS in Congress never seem to get sore enough at the Democrats to secede from a good committee chairmanship. & oo o PRESIDENT TRUMAN is having difficulty getting a successor to Eric Johnston as economic “spiralization” director. Nobody wants to get a pain in the neck watching prices rise. o 6H 4H THE PRESIDENT says 95 per cent of federal payrollers are oxay. Its those 5 per centers that cause the trouble both in and out’ of government,

> Bb OH . SIMILE—as well publicized as a “secret poll.”

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The American Legion has compiled translations of Moscow press and radio Korean War fictions. They were published in the Legion's

“Trends and Developmerits Exposing the Com-

munist Conspiracy.”

Here are samples: Pravda, officidl organ of the Russian Com-

munist Party, guoted Kim II "Sung, North Korea's Premier, as saying: “American missionaries who in the past

came to Korea praising God and holding crosses

are today holding carbines instead of crosses, :

shooting to death pregnant women herded into groups, running over children in tanks, ow “WALL STREET gentlemen, who arrogantly boasted the goodness of liberty before the world, are today carrying Korean girls, stripped naked, off in their cars and tanks and subjecting them to all sorts of raping beastialities beyond the imagination of manknd.”

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The Moscow this fabie: : x © “In Phaju County (Korea) Ameri¢ans seized 135 officials as well as members of their famflies, laid them nd hand and foot in the roadway, and ran ever Shem with tanks.” xP AND IN the Village of Unenni, said New Times, United Statey troops captured the De e

weekly, New Times, published

‘dent of the local ‘Peasant Union; but,

killing him, they cut off his ears -and nose, gouged out his eyes and stripped off his skin.” Even Congress is revolted, according to New Times, so that “legislators are constantly under the weather and come to sitting (of Congress) with bloated faces and blsodshot.“eyes. They are not happy drunk—they drink to escape.” “Crimes of the American invaders . . . have already put the atrocities of Hitler's butchers in the shade,” says the Cominform bulletin. This official mouthpiece of world communism, which goes out in 16 languages, specializes in particlilarly gruesome fantasies. Thus:

Where's Your Collection, Chum?

OLIVES AND STUFF . . . By Frederick C. Othman Mr. O. Training for Cocktaileroos

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-—-The season of that nefarious institution, the Capital cocktail party, is at hand and I'm going into training. I am, in fact, thinking of copying a dishonest practice of which Honest Harold L. Ickes was guilty. The old boy used to attend a lot of the local cocktail- : eroos; so many that he knew by sight most of the perampulating bartenders who cater to these affairs. They knew, in turn, what Honest Harold wanted to drink. Into a cocktail glass with an olive at the bottom they

poured for him a dollop of light white wine. The other

guests thought he was taking martinis; solemnly he sipped his pale wine and never once got squiffed. This is more than I can say for some other brass-hats hereabouts, but who am I to name them? Their hangovers next morning should be punishment enough. As of now, any bureaucrat, or newspaperman for that matter, is invited to ‘more cocktail parties than he can attend, even with a

OLD SOLDIER

THE BROKEN tov soldier , .-. lay still on the floor . . . surrounded by other tin men , , the captain surveyed him with pity and hépe . «+ « but he could not repair him again . . . the general who made all the tin soldiers move . . . picked up the one Jyounded and hurt . . . and held him so tight .". . and tried all his might + + +» to revive him and make him look pert . . . but his task was in vain ... and he laid him aside , . . in a place where the o'd soldiers 80 . . . to recall in their dreams . . . all the wars and the schemes . , . that the general once let them know, --By Ben Burroughs.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — Sen. Robert A. Taft's new book, “A Foreign Policy for Americans,” has scarcely a jill of ‘Jennerism” in it, Sen. Brien McMahon's charge that it proves the Ohio Republican presidential aspirant still is a Midwest “isolationist” is but the partisan view of a Connecticut Democrat. For 8en. Taft readily acknowledges the fact that free world leadership has . fallen upon the United States and he is willing to accept it—with constitutional safeguards which he believes President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson has flouted.

"HE ALSO THINKS that it can be done cheaper, including the Point Four program. All that adds up to quite a different antl - bipartisanship then that long advocated here by the junior Senator from Indiana, GOP party boss in the state, Sen. Willlam E. Jenner. : Should Sen. Taft be nominated for the presidency and the party platform incorporate the {ideas contained in his book. It would be just as well

bicycle. This has resulted in a major local industry. The hotels provide the cocktails, either Manhattans or martinis at $16 per gallon, and also the food, as elaborate as the host can afford. : The cost frequently means nothing to him This is Congress’ fault. It passed the tax law, draining off most of any corporation's profits Money spent for entertaining clients and/or politicians is a business expense and hence deductible. The cocktail party tossed by the big businessman, or his aides, costs the firm little or nothing at the end of the year. That's why this season a guest attending the shindig of the Bucyrus Buggy Whip Corp.'s vice president seldomn has any room for dinner afterwards. Such brawls now {include whole boiled salmon iced with mayonnaise. turkeys, hams, salads, fried oysters, things that look like cakes but stuffed with goose liver, sausages, shrimps, and -— frequently — slabs of roast beef. The best is.none too good at a local cocktail party, particularly since it's no expense to anybody, except possibly the U. 8. Treasury. This may be something for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to investigate, after it finishes investigating itself. ‘A friend of mine at Treasury I see him at a good many of these cocktail businesses— insists there isn't much the tax collectors can do until Congressmen freeload at too many cocktail parties. This is what a prohibitionist would call a perfect example of the vicious circle. :

Glass of Milk

LAST SUCH affair I attended the man asked me what I wanted to. drink. IT sald a glass of milk. Got it, too, and I must say it tasted elegant. There's nothing like a series of such wasted evenings to dull a fellow's desire for whisky. So tonight

are

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I am supposed to attend two cocktail parties, one in the country and the other in town. WHy, I have not the slightest idea if I don’t show up, I doubt if I'll be missed. And that suggests the best idea of all. Just stay home with the television set and a noggin of beer,

By Galbraith DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Taft's Foreign Policy May Be Bad for Jenner

if Sen. Jenner did | for governor as most everyone pre-

dicts he will, to Europe to s =» Eisenhower, RUNNING FOR Senator “We have

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the peasant woman Ro San Pu and r stripping her the bandits pierced her ears ahd nose with wire and led her through the for two days. Not content with this monstrous spectacle, the murderers tied her to a tree hepd downwards and drove a wooden stake through her stomach, The innocent victim died in horrible tarment, cursing her murderers.’. ° .In Phanpori, lied the bulletin, the “American invaders”. buried 12 boys and girls “neck deep in the ground” and “held a shooting contest, choosing as their targets the heads of the living children,” :

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THESE examples of Hitler's big lie, ax now perfected by the Communists, could be multiplied many times. » Yet, while spreading them recklessly by Prgne and air, the Soviet bloc has never dared bring the phony atrocity charges before the United Nations, .

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‘Disarmament Plan’

MR. EDITOR:

Recently. President Truman and Dean Acheson proposed that the United Nations undertake first a world-wide arms census and then a world-wide step-by-step disarmament supervised and inspected by the United Nations. Although this proposal was greeted with some cynicism by many Americans, because of expected opposition of the Soviet Union, we must not underestimate the great importance and significance of this move, It is by all odds our biggest step in the battle of ideas. If we are to succeed in winning the “cold war” we must recognize and exploit to the full the value of ideas and propaganda. This proposal offers an excellent strategy for a real American “peace offensive.” During my trip to Europe last spring, I was deeply ‘impressed with the serious concern of many Europeans that the actions of the United States might be as apt to plunge the world into war as those of the Soviet Union. That so many people should have such misconception of our objectives is a clear indication of the failure of our “public relations” and propaganda. a bow

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THE program of armament on which we have embarked, necessary though it may be, is certainly placing dangerous strains on our econ omy. If, in addition, the propaganda efforts of the Soviet Union are successful in using our armament program to label us as “warmengers” in the minds of a substantial fraction of the world’s peoples, it could be disastrous. In the ‘proposal now made by our government. with the backing of France and Englahd, we have a potent weapon to combat the Soviet Union. At worst, by vigorous advocacy of United: Nations supervised and inspected disarmament we can combat Soviet efforts to label us as warmongers and can reveal the insincerity of their phony peace maneuvers. At best, we mav be able to achieve enough political support for this idea throughout the world to compel Soviet acceptance of it. . We must support our government in this proposal for United Nations inspected disarmament. It must be pushed with all the vigor and resources at our command. It offers the only real hope of reducing the tax burden for armjaments. of winning the’ cold war, of avoiding World War IIT and of diverting to the war against want, hunger, ignorance and disease the vast resources now devoted to War. ’ —Charles C. Price, Notre Dame.®

‘Our Lost Lane’ :

MR. EDITOR: . I'm still miffed about this business of parking along the streets during rush hour. Pick an outside lane going north, even on the oneway streets, and nine times out of ten you find vourself faced with a car some guy parked along the way. What can you do? Try your darndest to get over into the center lane without getting hit by another guy behind you.. We heard quite a bit about what the poklice were going to do with this now famous tow-in truck. They did take a few off the streets for a little while, but they are not doing it now and thev haven't been for a long time. T'd just like to know who's afraid of whom in this deal and why the law isn't being carried out. There that outside lane is going to waste just because a few guys gotta park their cars there and block the rest of the public. Let's get on the ball, Mr. Policeman, and arrest a few nf these people . . . & few more than youthave in the past. Maybe then we can. get our lost lane back without too much trouble. Think so? ~—Tough Driver, City

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

SEATTLE-—A local lady won a divorce after she testified that her husband slept with = straight razor under his pillow every night“and threatened to use it on me.” This cut-up who lives midst the peace of Seattle, Had rather belligerent aims. “He slept every night well equipped for ®& battle —, At least so his lady fair claims. She says 'neath his pillow he kept a keen razor, : But she proved far sharper than he. - She honed for no husband who threatened to graze 'er She just cut him clean as-can be.

Eisenhower inspect these views, as Arthur Krock of the New

support Gen. York Times indicated he will do, he might well conclude that followed false Sen, Taft is Internationalist

enough for him.

ran see no good in U.8. foreign policy, the general principles of which Sen. Taft approves, ‘ The senior Senator from Ohio supports the basic bipartisan goals, which Sen. Jenner has so bitterly attacked in the Senate and on the stump. The Taft book pays high tribute to the late Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) who fathered the bipartisan policy while Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe in the Republican 80th congress. ” n ” SEN. JENNER had little but scorn for the Vandenberg leadership. He contended that “Bipartisanship” was a oneway street down which the Democrats had lured the man from Michigan. He voted against every scrap of it, except the Greek-Tur-kish loan, and is largely credited with getting the senior Senator from Indiana, Sen. Homer E. Capehart®to do likewise, : fen, Jenner's views were

Jenner said. ‘They have led us

. from a world of peace and

plenty to the hideous world of today ... We are on the wrong road. We must turn off and find again the road followed by the great leaders "of our past.” - r » SUCH “TURN back the universe and give me yesterday” sentiments find no support in the Taft book. A pre-World War II isolationist, who voted against nearly all administration proposals until the bombs dropped on Pearl Harr, Sen. Taft accepts U. 8. world responsibility today.

In his book, he favors keeping our troops in Europe and backing Gen. Eisenhower's

military planning. He agrees

with the-fundamental policy on containment of Soviet agression in the world today. It is on the detalls of execution that he most disagrees with the “bungling” Truman administration. This is not the Taft of 10 or 15 years ago. 8hould Gen,’

That might be sad news ‘to Sen. Jenner, \

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A MISSOURI judge ruled )t OK for a wife to go through her husband's pockets while he was asleep. In most cases, he should get up and help her hunt, : » » ” A BOSTON professor sys that poetry is a spontaneous achievement. Many magazine editors wish it were capable of spontaneous combustion. - ” . » A DOCTOR says we can't hear as well: after meals n= before. 80 mom has a heck of a time waking dad up from that after-dinner snooze. ” ~ » * SOME dumb walters are pulled up by a rope. Othérs don't deserve a tip. : ~ - - - $ AN OHIO man was robb when he stopped his car for, a trafMe signal. Red always has been a danger sign. 1

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