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Right on the Ball 5 T HIS defensive press conference Thursday, President Truman belligerently claimed ‘that in no case of irregularity in the government had congressional or other investigators been ahead of him in catching up with the culprits. He expressly cited his handling of Communist sympathizers in the government as an example of how he had beaten the headline hunters to the punch. # Mr. Truman talked too soon. * Hours later his Loyalty Review Board found, at last, that John Stewart Service, a fair-haired boy in the State Department, was at least a ‘reasonable doubt” on the basis of loyalty to his country. i ; The Lovalty Board's finding, which resulted in the mandatory dismissal of Service, was based on his connection with the notorious Amerasia case. » » » ~ »~ » SERVICE was sent home from China in 1945 by the ‘ambassador because he was undercutting U.S. policy there. He came right home and started clubbing around with Philip Jaffe, editor of Amerasia Magazine, who later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal top secret government -documents. ; or > Now, six years and eight months later, Service is - fired. Which is a long time to catch up with a man who, as much as’ anyone else, set the State Department pattern wyphieh led to the diplomatic debacle m-the Far Bast—and

. American casualties. Mr. Truman, by his own testimony, is moving in the same fashion to correct other irregularities in the govern- . ment, such as—

The Tax Scandals

IN THIS field, Mr. Truman pictures himself as the top housecleaner in the government. He says he always has been that way and that he will not tolerate the kind .of stuff which has heen exposed in the Internal Revenue “Bureau and the Justice Department. : He said, at the press conference Thursday, that he , had been aware of these scandals long before congressional investigators came along -to grab the headlines. And that . he had been ready to act. :~ But he picked some mighty poor examples of his “diligence. = He suspended tax collector James Smyth in San Francisco on Sept. 27. But the California Crime Commission nearly a vear before alleged a strange relationship between : “the criminal element” and officials of the San Francisco Internal Revenue Office. _ . Tax collector James P. Finnegan of St. Louis resigned

several weeks. Treasury Secretary Snyder said he asked ~Finnegan to quit the previous August, but when Finnegan “didn’t resign he was permitted to stay on. Mr. Truman suspended tax collector Dennis W. Delaney in Boston last June 27. But the charges on which Delaney later was indicted were based on conduct dating back as far as 1947. Mr. Truman fired T. Lamar Caudle, chief of the tax “fraud division of the Justice Department, on Nov. 16. But “nearly two vears ago top officials of the Justice Department "by-passed Caudle with a tax' evasion case because he was ‘suspected of leaking information which. got back to the

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. » » zg » . IF. MR. TRUMAN knew about all these things as far in advance of his action as he indicates he did, how does it happen he waited, in each of these cases, until grand juries or congressional investigators brought out * the facts? Either the presidential wheels grind exceedingly slow, and need some grease, or Mr. Truman is kidding about how wise he has been to what was going on.

Let Japan Rearm

STEPPED-UP Soviet press campaign against a rearmed Japan underscores some of the challenging problems ‘that will be faced by both the United States and Japan when that country regains her freedom next year. " Russia refused to sign the peace treaty in San Francisco last September and so far has given no indication of what she intends to do when the treaty goes into effect. For one thing, Russia could continue to regard Japan as still under occupation, and even demand. that Soviet troops be stationed in Japan. In any casé, Russia does not want Japan rearmed because she fears the Japanese would fight on the side of the

Moreover, Japan is a natural and logical target of early Communist conquest if thé Korean War is enlarged. : » The United States will have the burden of defending Japan until she is capable of taking on that responsibility ‘herself. That is a basic reason for the mutual security (pact we have signed with Japan, permitting us to station

«will of course put the pact into effect. ‘Whether or not the Korean War is settled, it is incon -ceivable that Japan should remain completely unarmed-— :or with a mere “police reserve” of 75,000 men. = = » » » . JOHN FOSTER DULLES, author of the peace treaty, -was eminently right in reminding the Japanese Thursday ‘night in a Tokyo speech that they were assuming a moral -obligation to provide armed forces against any-aggressor. In the war against Asiatic communism—which won't end with the Korean truce—it would be heartening indeed

.. many of them desire to be. A « - Though Japan's contribution, financially or militarily, .+can only be small at the outset, as Mr. Dulles said, it neverstheless can be significant. : The wraps should be taken off and Japan not only permitted, but encouraged and helped, to rearm as fast ax she can, "Any other tourse would be playing into Soviet -“ hands, : :

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NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson

Go to Spain, Your $$ Will Last

tourist's best bet in Europe. With the official exchange rate at just under 40 pesetas to;the U. 8. dollar, and the black market rate much better, money will go far. A big double room and bath at the Ritz here

costs $4.40 a night. Best rooms in Madrid, with linen sheets, are $8 and $10. Rates at the official government inns are from $1 to $2 a night. Second-class hotels without the conveniences are less. Food in Barcelona is higher than in other parts of Spain, but the average table d'hote luncheon or dinner, with three courses and dessert, is $1.15. Theater tickets are $1. but bull fights get up to $20. A big filet mignon in Toledo was 75 cents. Five pesetas—12!; cents—is an average tip and will get you service with a smile. For those who can take it, Mediterranean seafood offers some rare advantages in eating. You start with French fried minnows, tails, heads. black eyes and all. You go from there to baby clams about the size of your fingernail. Baby octopus in the soyp or snails in the rice are the next step. Th eels. When you can eat octopus cooked in its own ink--then you're a real Spaniard.

Problem in Portugal LISBON Difficulties of trying to bring European armaments up to modern standards are best illustrated in Portugal, where riext North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting will be held. If Portuguese armed forces were mechanized and modernized, Portugal would have to double it present military budget, just to maintain the equipment. J And this would, of course, assume that the United States furnished all the modern jet planes, tanks and guns needed. Portugal could not afford to pay for them—much less make

- them in her own limited industrial plants.

Still No Change

MADRID—S8panish government of El Caudillo Francisco Franco is still doggedly, determinedly Fascist in character. This was strikingly shown after a recent Spanish government order temporarily expelling a New York Times correspondent, When the order canceling the expulsion was issued, some U. 8, newspapers praised the action. Tt was interpreted as a sign that Franco was at last seeing the wisdom of greater freedom of expression and less censorship.

Spanish government press officers immediately protested. - The Franco administration was not becoming more liberal, they said. And they didn't want credit for being considered liberal when they weren't. .

We're Still Friends

PARIS—Dr. Philip Jessup, doing a job here as United States representative to the United Nations General Assembly meeting, had a unique experience after the Senate refused to confirm his appointment. Republican Sen. H. Alexander Smith of

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sulted in a 3-0-2 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee adverse recommendation, called Jessup to his office. Sen. Smith and Mr. Jessup had long been friends. Sen. Smith's vote had therefore come as a surprise. The Senator said he hoped his vote would make no difference in th r friendship. : He said his reason for the vote was a beliof that Jessup had lost the confidence of the country. Jessup accepted President Truman's recess appointment, and came to Paris regardless,

Voice of America Is Popular

MADRID Voice of America has perhaps a better following in Spain than almost any country in Europe. There are daily 45-minute programs broadcast from Londen and Tangiers, and there are 31 platter stations handling Voice programs in the provinces. All draw a tremendous amount of fan mail. When the Voice earlier in the year offered a little mimeographed pamphlet, "“Graficas,” it brought 17,000 replies. Circulation grew =o fast

that the ‘publication has had to be discontinued .

because it cost too much to print. When strikes broke out in Barcelona and Bilbao last spring, British Broadcasting Corporation programs beamed to Spain played them up as though they were the beginning of a revolt against the Franco regime. Franco's opponents put pressure on Voice of America to follow the same line, but the Voice played the news straight, reporting only demonstrations. When the demonstrations did subside, without result, Voice of America won indorsement for accuracy of its report.

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Hoosier Forum—‘Reds in U. S.

'"] do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death yeur right to say it."

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MR. EDITOR: Ida E. Davis seems to think we had ought to be glad we are fighting Reds In Korea instead of on N. Meridian St. and most of us will agree to that. However, some of us have serious doubts if we are going to accomplish anything except a headache by fighting them in Korea. She then goes on to say, ''It was subversive and also ignorant but well-meaning mothers who kept after the government right after World War II for their boys te be sent home,” and this is partly true. The mothers or most of them were ignorant because they believed F. D. R. when he promised them not to send their sons to fight in foreign lands. They were also ignorant when they believed him again when he told them that World War II would bring peace in our time. They were also ignorant when they believed him when he said there would be no other war in the foreseeable future.

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BUT WHY blame the mothers and the subversive groups. The Subversives wouldn't have been part and parcel of the New Deal if F. D. R. hadn't wanted them there, Likewise, the mothers would have believed

’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 —

fe For these many yeass I have contemplated the pleasure of being snowhound on my arid acres in Fairfax County, Va, with no work to do, or even a

piece for the papers to write, I now have my wish in reverse. Stuck in town without a toothbrush, While IT was in the golden and grandiose sanctum of the House Ways and Means Comsmittee listening to bureaucrats defending themselves from an assortment of charges involving reluctant taxpayers, it began to snow. It kept on snowing. It still is snowing. The whole city went haywire. Ice stuck in the third rails and stopped some of -the trolleys. 8kidding automobiles on the local hills halted others. The police had so many reports of auto wrecks they were - giving them priority numbers. mostly the busses quit, while public transportation to Me-

\ Lean, Va., where I function as > a farmer, disappeared. 3 ” » »

Ving. 1 PHONED out there (the : ; phones also were slightly on ns. the blink) and over a loud buz: -

zing sound I got our Peruvian * boy, Victor, on the line. He sounded excited. “Nieve het cried. *“Nieve, nieve,” He

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KNUCKLE RAPPER ... By Ludwell Denny . American Officials Criticize Excessive German ‘Blackmail’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—The French and British are not the only. ones getting fed up with excessive German demands—'blackmail,” as some call it. Now even American officials, often ridiculed by their Allied colleagues as “suckers,” are rapping German knuckles, oi John J. McCloy, U, 8. high commissioner, in his current quarterly report is critical of the German attitude. His deputy, Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, on retiring recently was more sweeping in condemning the revival of “arrogant nationalism,” softness for Nazis, anti-8emitism, and other unlovely aspects of the contemporary situation.

West Germans shrugged off the Buttenwieser

blast. He did not speak for othdr Americans. And certainly not for Commissioner McCloy, it was said. But the milder, though nevertheless barbed, McCloy criticisms have gotten under their skin. Because of all major Allied officials in West Germany, he has been the most sympathetic and patient.

Official Report

OF COURSE he has not been popular since he refused to set aside judicial proceedings and free some of the worst remaining Nazi criminals. Then ‘the widespread public reaction was that this “pro-German” American high commissfoner had turned “anti-German.” Their condemnation was all for this upright official, and none for the convicted Nazi criminals. Still, a more reasonable minority defended him instead of the criminals, though not publicly. But few of them will forgive him for stating in his official report, for all the world to read, that Germans “are inclined to exaggerate their burdens and grievances, to make excessive demands and even to display an attitude of intrasigence quite inappropriate to the realities of

'‘Germany’s present position and actual interest’

At ‘that, he is far kinder in his judgment than most Allied representatives and ohservers in West Germany. He offers two excuses for the trend he condemns. : He puts most of the blame on the Socialist Party and its partisan attacks on the Adenauer government's general policy of co-operation with the Allies. And he thinks the ‘tide of dissent

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against the Allies” does not spring from “basic antagonism,” but is rather “the normal outcome of protracted. foreign occupation of a country which is rapidly recovering a sense of independent statehood.” ; Like McCloy, other Allied representatives blame the opposition Socialists and defend Chancellor Adenauer. But they also blame

Protestant church leaders, the. German Party

JOHN J. McCLOY—Germans exaggerate

their burdens to make excessive demands.

and Free Democratic Party insidé the coalition government, and such cabinet officers as Justice Minister Thomas Dehler and Transport Minister Hans Seebohm. As for the McCloy excuse that this dan-

of foreign occupation " : more reasonable mood in the néfir future, Allied officials. generally: are more pgssimistic, Though they insigt it is necessary to take Western Germany into the Allied defense aystem against Soviet aggression, they find the German public attitude abnormal and fear fit will remain unco-operative for a long time.

STEEL TROUBLE . :'. By Bruce Biossat ; Collective Bargaining a Fiction?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—The current steel wage negotiations sharply illustrate»an aspect of - American labor relations that is steadily becoming more significant. It's this: In most .major industries, collective bargaining is being reduced almost to a fiction.

Collective . bargaining .is that hallowed process for which organized labor fought so long and dearly. It was sanctified in the Wagner Act of 1935 and preserved by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Yet. events and attitudes which developed in that 12year interval went far te nullify the principle in actual practice. And the unhappy heritage of the period has

made an indelible mark en labor relations in recent years. Thus. we find Benjamin Mr. Fairless

Fairless, president of U. 8. Steel Corp., saying on the eve of the new wage talks: “Whether our workers are to get a Yaise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining and apparently will have to be decided in Washington.” He added that the present discussions involve broad questions of public policy. which go far beyond the scope of collective bargaining in these days of wage and price controls. In the light of those remarks, it should surprise no one that the discussions have made

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Roosevelt if he had told them the truth, although they probably wouldn't have elected him President for a third term. Furthermore, the Reds wouldn't have got control of North Korea in the first place if Roosevelt hadn't given it to Joe Stalin at Yalta. So let's put the blame for the mess in Konrea, as well as in other parts of the world, right where it belongs instead of trying to blame it on the mothers. Because if F. D. R, believed what he. said or had any confidence in Joe Stalin, he was the one that was ignorant.

—('. D. C., Terre Haute. ‘Let Us See’ . MR. EDITOR: How often is there a Holy Year of the whole Catholic world? The answer is every 25 years. How often is/there a Holy Year pilgrimage in Indianapolis? Not even once in 25 years.

Don’t you think that when something of this order does happen it deserves a picture or two? Why won't you let us, the people ‘of Indianapolis, know more about and see what's going on out of the ordinary? - -—A. J. G., City.

WEATHER TALK . . . By Frederick. C. Othman Stuck in Town Without a Toothbrush—

meant . it was snowing out

little headway up to now. Evidently no real progress can be expected until the federal gov{ernment takes a hand to compel a settlement, Union chiefs say they want to bargain, and they blame steel officials for the delays. They are said to be discussing seriously the idea of a strike threat at contract expiration Jan. 1, not with intent of actually walking out but rather with the hope of scaring industry and the government into action. Naturally, industry's version of the negotiations is at odds with labor's. Neither side is ever likely to concede publicly that it has stalled for tactical reasons. But the real blame for situations like this should not fall primarily on either of the present parties to the dispute. It rests with the bargaining practices which sprang up in that 1935-47 era, especially as the war came on. More often than not in major wage controversies, Washington intervened to enforce a

solution. Sometimes defense requirements compelted this course. Sometimes it just seemed like habit. :

Shrewd union officials soon concluded that referral to the government meant a better settlement for them. They therefore frequently felt it wisest to avoid serious bargaining with industry, in the comfortable knowledge they would get richer rewards by waiting for Washington to step in.

Ingrained Process

THERE certainly were times, too, when industry felt that its own chances were better that way, or at least that its case before the stockholders would look stronger if it acted under government compulsion. The control-mindedness of wartime Washington officialdom made constant intervention appear more and more logical and essential. By war's end, it was largely an ingrained process. The life and stuffing had gone out of collective bargaining. Occasionally since then, there have heen real spurts of honest negotiation. But to most onlookers today, the performances of both unions and management have usually appeared to be preliminary sparring. Actual dealing waited upon federal action. Possibly, in war and in defense emergencies like the present, there is sound reason for “settlement through government.” But we would hate to believe the current fashion in bargaining practices represents an ‘irreversible trend. Wages and conditions of work ought primarily to be the concern of the people directly involved —the companies and their workers. Today we are moving away from true economic democracy,

Views on News

CHRISTMAS at these prices takes a lot of installment planning.

FOLKLORE—Eggnog originally was designed as a shaving lotion for Santa Claus.

THERE MUST be a good deal of manpower wasted thinking up fancy names for hamburger on high-priced menus.

BIGGEST news in TV history will be when a program sponsor loses a product test. /

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there, tno. Haw. He wondered when was I coming home. He wondered also _ where was the Senora, meaning Mrs. O. .She was downtown deing her Christmas shopping. When she got outside the store, F Street, our main drag, looked almost like the night before Christmas. Nothing stirring.

GOD'S LAND

MAY THE good lord bless our country... may He always keep it free . . . may He give strength to the leaders . . . who control its destiny . . . may He guide us on to victory + «+ « for we seek it in His name + « » may He punish the offenders . . . who have put His word to shame . . . may the Lord bestow upon us . . . faith to fight for what is right . . . for it seems no way is open « + » but to show the world with might , . . may He make our land abundant . .°* with the goodly things af life . . . so that we can preserve freedom , . . free of want or fear or strife . . . for we know our land is His land . . . and we beg Him hear .our plea . . .

walk among us, dwall within .

us .,. now apd for eternity. ~By Ben Burroughs.

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and what did I think we ought to do? I said move into a hotel, She said, without a nightgown? So she went shopping for a hotel room. She had no baggage; nothing, but wet feet, Not that she was embarrassed. A lot of other people were on the same quest. » » n .

EVENTUALLY sfie found a room ‘near DuPont Circle, where I've got to hoof. No

taxis. No rubbers, either. Some fun. I kind of think it is fun, at that. I'll mush out later for some toothpaste and, since I have a finicky wife, a couple of pairs of pajamas, too. The main thing that pleases me about our blizzard is its vindication of old Farmer Othman’s recent predictions of a . long, hard winter. You may remember that. I'd hardly written it before the weather turned summery and the ladies began parading without their nylons. I also received some snide correspondence, saying that I knew no more about

weather forecasting .than La- .

mar Caudle did about tax collecting. - . x » NN: 8 “ I MEAN that, as the author of my own old farmer's alma-

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nac, I' am busting a butten, The official forecasters see no letup at this writing. Looks like the biggest blizzard in these parts in years, . When finally I do get home I shall give Tommy, our horse, a large lump of brown sugar, which he prefers to white. He's the weather prophet in our family, Weeks ago he grew

himself the finest fur coat

ever to warm man or beast. He also produced himself some ear muffs, His ears are covered now with so much thick hair that he almost looks like a lady movie star of the 1920's, Or did when last I saw him,

‘before his forecast came true.

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