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Playing the Chump WHEN the United States asked the United Nations to reduce its annual assessment from 39.9 per cent of the total cost of supporting the organization to exactly onethird of the total, it wasn’t asking for much. Only $1.5 million was involved. But when a vote was taken on the question, only one country, Nicaragua, supported the American position. That's how we rate when the roll is called. Twenty delegations, including that of Israel, abstained from voting. Britain and France, two of the nations to which the United States has been most generous, were among the 29 delegations voting against us. So were India, Pakistan and Greece. The nations named are cited because on occasion the United States has lost support in the United Nations when our delegation cast votes for them. But when we needed them they were against us. at

THE ASSESSMENT issue was relatively unimportant. But we have been taking a beating on other issues as well, for similar reasons. It points up the trouble into which we are drifting because we have become known as a soft touch. We have gained this reputation because of our State Depart‘ment’s inept leadership, and because of the politically naive people it has selected to speak for us in the United Nations. Our No. 1 delegate, Warren Austin, is an amiable old gentleman of some erudition who might serve as an acceptable front if he were given a strong policy, provided he had someoné®acking him up. But the other regulars on the . current delegation at Paris are Philip C. Jessup and Ernest Gross, neither of whom would know a precinct from a Dutch oven—and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is by all odds the most adroit member of the four, which should give some idea of what is lacking in our representation. + Even our big checkbook can’t make up for these de-

ficiencies when we have no one with enough muscle to tell

our fair-weather friends that when we vote for them we expect them to vote for us, or else. . We have alienated the Arab states by supporting Israel on Palestine partition, Britain on the Suez and Sudan issues, and France on the Moroccan question. But on the assessment issue, Israel abstained, and Britain and France joined the Arabs and the Russians in voting against us.

» # . LAST YEAR we lost Pakistan's favor by supporting India for a seat on the Security Council. But that wén us no support from India. This year we have lost the support of several of the Latin-American states by supporting Sir Benegal Rau of India against the candidate of Uruguay for

-a place on the International Court of Justice. But did this win India's support? It did not.

When we backed Greece against a Russian candidate for a seat on the Security Council this year, India joined the Latin-American insurgents in voting against our candidate. So did Britain, which currently is asking us for another handout. Pakistan also voted against us, although we also are supporting that country for a Security Council seat. And Greece voted against us on the assessment. We can expect this to go on until we have someone representing us with sense enough to know that there is such a thing as reciprocity in political relations.

The Enemy Produces

HEAVY troop movements by the Chinese Communists in a South China province bordering on Indo-China are authoritatively reported from Hong Kong. At the same time, according to Chinese press and Nationalist intelligence sources, there has been a steady buildup of Communist air strength in South China. More than 60 Soviet jets were reported to have been sent to an ajrfield in Kwangsi province within the past few weeks, and another 117 Soviet planes were counted on Canton’s airfields. Against the background of the Korean truce talks, this could have ominous meaning. It could lend weight to repeatedly expressed French fears that as soon as the fighting stops in Korea the Chinese Communists will launch an all-out assault on Indo-China. Or, it could be a typical Communist feint to mask preparations for a ny offensive in Korea. :

# '® = BUT THE far graver implication lies in the fact that Soviet Russia can furnish the planes for a two-front war in Asia. Already Russia has put 1400 planes—half of them jets

. mostly superior to ours—into the Korean War, and now

apparently she has another 200 ready for any new adventure ia South China. And only this week—with the war a year and a half old—by straining and shuffling schedules and shifting allocations, we've managed to send another shipment of perhaps 73 jets to Korea. That, woefully belated, gives us an estimated 150 jets to go up against the Communists’ 700. Meanwhile, according to Defense Department figures, Allied plane losses by enemy action have totaled 583 throughout the war, as against only 308 Russian aircraft destroyed by our side. + All this is a terrible reproach to our production planners, and to our policy makers who are trying their best not to disturb the civilian economy with an election year coming

up.

A Surprising Change JRUGUAY has embarked upon an interesting experiment ~ by abolishing its Presidency and substituting for it a nine-member council, similar to the administrative system in Switzerland.

i Since Uruguay has not been plagued by the one-man

dictatorships so familiar in Argentina and Brazil, the

opcasion for the change is not apparent from this distance. Uruguay has long been identified as the best-governed country in South America. | LC ~The change may have been brought about by the Peron influence, just the same. Looking across the River Plate at what has been going on in Buenos Aires, the

Uruguayans may have concluded that it would be well to

take time by the fo ‘and adopt a form of government to. make it even more difficult for anything like that to

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Churchill May Decide Fate Of Proposed European Army eo

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The fate of- the proposed European army will be greatly influenced, and perhaps decided, by Winston Churchill's talks with the Paris government and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Unless the British Prime Minister gives more definite support than hitherto, the French proposal for an integrated West European army, including German contingents, probably will die. The issué 18 not whether Britain will become a full member, furnishing ground troops comparable to the continental nations. This is no longer expected, . eo + @ :

THE QUESTION is whether she will become a political associate in some form, and perhaps provide naval and particularly air forces if only of a token nature. This would have a tremendous moral effect upon some. of the reluctant continental nations, including Germany. ‘Also

EUROPE . . . By James Daniel England Has A Question

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The U, 8. government is beginning to get a line on what President Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill will talk about when the Prime Minister comes here for a week’s visit early next month, Mr. Churchill hopes to find out before he arrives how much financial aid he can expect from the U. 8. for rearmament and for Britain's financial crisis. He wants to be free to discuss global strategy. h He is reluctant to be limited by any agenda drawn up in advance. But he has hinted, or permitted others to hint for him, that certain questions will be raised. Among them are: ONE — The question of an American admiral as NATO commander in the Atlantic (Churchill personally vetoed the American proposal over the wishes of the North Atlantic treaty countries and of British military men).

~~ TWO—RBritain’s desire for more U. 8. backing in Egypt and Iran. THREE-Mr. Churchill's claimed fears that the U. 8. has been given too much leeway in deciding the conditions under which American air bases in Britain would be used if general war comes. FOUR—Mr. Churchill's desire, as a point of British pride, to return to the old wartime exchange of atomic information among the U. 8, Britain and Canada. This arrangement was torpedoed by such events as the Klaus Fuchs Spy case. Mr. Churchill is also expected to bring up the

Mr. Churchill « « « global strategy

" subject of another face-to-face ‘meeting with

Stalin. . The U. 8. government is prepared to pour cold water on this, reminding Mr. Churchill that there are plenty of public forums for talking with Stalin (for instance, the United Nations), without inviting the disappointments of Yalta and Potsdam again. The U. 8. government is expected to say that Britain fundamentally has made little progress toward mechanization, freer trade and other reforms on which real recovery must be based. For example, American representatives will probably point to Britain's failure to restore her coal production, which is a big reason for her dollar 'shortage, Imports she used to pay for by selling coal in Europe now must be paid for in dollars. Equally bad, her former European coal customers are being compelled to trade with Iron Curtain countries, giving manufactured goods in exchange. This builds up the Soviet war machine. On the Far East, the U. 8. government will say that Britain's policy of extending one-way recognition to the Chinese Reds is a washout. Mr. Churchill probably won't agree to reverse that policy. But the U. 8. government is hopeful of an understanding of what both countries will do if there is an armistice in Korea, if there isn’t one, and if there is one that later is violated by the Reds. Some time in the ‘meeting, the President and the Prime Minister will list all the trouble spots around the world and try to agree as to which nation has primary responsibility in each of them.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY ONE BIG snowstorm and city folks stop dreaming of a white Christmas. eo @ HOUSE RULES provide that Rep. Frank Boykin be referred ,to as “the gentleman from Alabama.” S“. 2. ¢ i ADA CHAIRMAN Francis Biddle wants the Democrats to “clean up” and prevent “reactionaries” from taking over the government. But it was “cleaning up” that got the Trumanites in bad. ¥ “ SD TREASURY SECRETARY Ww Je, SNYDER had a favorable ge ; audience when he stressed the need for more tax money. He was addressing the Missourians in Washington, D. C.

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it would involve, indirectly at least, a commitment to pool some British ground forces in the European army in event of war—rather than in advance as the others are doing. . * ' MR. CHURCHJLL'S attitude toward a European army—and the larger idea of European federation, of which it would be the military arm as the Schuman coal-steel plan is the economic arm-—has been contradictory. Long before he returned to-office, he was more or less the parent of the plan. But as it developed in the direction of a super-state, requiring sacrifice of national sovereignty, his enthusiasm cooled. In his policy statemént to the House of Commons 10 days ago he was evasive. He

sald that, as soon as continental nations agreed

on the final form of the European army, “we shall consider the most effective form of association with the resultant organizations , .

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we do not to merge in the European army but we are already joined to it (in the North Atlantic Treaty system).” . . At the recent NATO conference in Rome, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is accompanying Mr, Churchill fo Paris, also said vaguely Britain “desired to be an “associate” of the European army plan. : Since then some of the super-state teeth of the plan have been pulled—with an eye on Britain. ) Last week Mr. Churchill’s son, Randolph, in a speech believed to be the Prime Minister's trial balloon, speculated on the bility of

eventual British air forces for the proposed army pool and perhaps ultimately some ground

troops.

/ $. © O THERE is no doubt as to the preference of - Mr. Churchill and a majority of both the Conservative and Labor parties. They would like

Tries fo Turn His Head

NEVER TOUCHED ME ¢

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SCIENCE . . . By Wadsworth Likely

U. S. May Tax Fellowship Gifts -

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The Internal Revenue Bureau is planning to take away the long-standing tax exemption of millions of dollars in fellowship gifts given each year by foundations and large corporations to increase basic scientific and cultural knowledge. One man has been assigned by the bureau to work full time on fellowships. It is believed

that they will be judged by two rulings. The first declared that all fellowships for research

> or study after the doctorate degree were to be

considered as income and therefore taxable.

The second, made last summer, upset precedents of 27 years in the tax exempt status of the well-known John Simon Guggenheim memorial fellowships. This ruling was made as the result of an appeal from the first ruling by the Guggenheim Foundation. Now, all of the $750,000 a year given to scientists, artists and writers as gifts by this foundation is taxable as income. *

More Income

THE RULING means that the government stands to gain more income, but it also means that the multi-million dollar fellowship programs in the country will be jeopardized. It upsets years of precedence during which such fellowships were looked upon as gifts by the Internal Revenue Bureau and, therefore, tax free. : /

Taxable as income under the new ruling was an assistant professor of physical chemistry who received $3000 for a. nine-month period of research in the field of structural chemistry. Also taxable was the $3500 a writer received to finish a novel, the $3500 a scientist received to study the physiology and biochemistry of aquatic fungi, and the $3500 given for research .into the relations between government and economic processes.

It is believed that the new ruling was the result of investigations which showed - that some universities and corporations were taking advantage of the tax-free status of fel-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— Numerous manufacturers some months ago started selling to people, to make them smell

ald-colored pills, grass-tinted lozenges, and chewing gum tha exact shade of a park bench. These items contained chlorophyl, ‘the mysterious stuff that makes leaves green

the property of destroying odors in living things. So the chlorophyl factories have been working overtime, keeping up with the demand of the fastidious ‘onés’ anointing themselves with green. This has become big business. The producers aim to make it bigger. They're now four-legged customers; ely, dogs: Feed ‘em green food so ShoYn el = Veet, You think \ On Jan. 2 one of America’s " biggest producers of canned dog food, biscuits and 1 will have for sale across the land fits products dosed with chlorophyllin. “The best news

my for dog owners since dogs,” is . - RUST ¥ xosendus” ofaEn dos. “Why can't I.read the letters Sis gets from her soldier 7. food manufacturers. also are NL is ©. ordering up their chlorophyl

lowships. ‘There was one case where a corporation was paying a scientist $8000 a year to do a specific job, from which the corporation benefited. The corporation called it a “fellowship.”

A Contrast

THE NEW ruling contrasts with the prac-

tices of Canada and many other nations, in which such gifts as the Guggenheim fellowships are tax free. The Internal Revenue Bureau will, a spokesman said, decide cases on an individual basis. However, if the Guggenheim ruling is any criterion, fellowship gifts from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Research Council, the new National Science Foundation, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and other large organizations stand in almost certain danger of being taxed as income. A sort of prelude to this ruling was an early ruling by the bureau that Fulbright scholarships would be taxable as income. However, it is understood that the State Department persuaded - the Treasury Department to reverse this ruling.

GREAT ENGINEER

IF YOUR mind. is filled with worry , . .

"and your heart is full of fear . .. turn your

eyes toward the heavens ;.. and the wondrous engineer , . . He will bridge the stormy waters « + « and He'll ease your aching heart ., . and like magic. woes will leave you . . . for dear God “makes them depart . . . pleas will never go unanswered . . . for He listens to us all , , . He can steer us on life’s highway .. . so. we detour every fall . . . nothing in this world escapes Him ., . . He sees everything we do... and if we will trust Him deeply . . . we will all come smiling through . . . place your life with Him for guidance . .. and you'll know much happiness . . . for the Engineer will board you . .. on His heavenly express. —By Ben Burroughs.

DOGS . . . By Frederick C. Othman ‘Feed 'Em Green Food So They'll Smell Sweet’

meal by dosing it heavily with

via tank car. “No dog,” say

they, “ever need smell doggy coffee cream.

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to maintain British forces in Europe as a separate unit under Eisenhower's command, in the same way American forces will be a Sopa te: unit and the proposed European army of con- —— states would be te third unit: ; THERE are several reasons for this preference: British unwillingness to curtall sovereignty; distrust of continental political instas bility and military weakness; England's sep---

arate commitments to the Commonwealths and

Empire, and her special relationship to the U. 8. This is simply a contemporary version of the old paradox of Britain's position—of being, and not being, an integral part of the continent. The American and French governments, and Eisenhower, are expected to tell Mr, Churchill that Britain must definitely join with

the Furopeah army, short of giving

troops, or risk losing effective continental de-

_fense which is so essential to the British Isles,

Hoosier Forum “I do not agree with a word that you say,

but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."'—Voltaire. :

‘Mud on Our Boots’ MR. EDITOR: The state of affairs in this nation is becoming increasingly disgusting. Not only do we have a war on our hands that need not have happened, but we have corruption in the gove ernment that need not have happened either, If we don’t snap out of this world and nae tional morality slump soon, we will find oure selves in real trouble. Russia has called the plays long enough, It's our turn now and the only way we can do

it is to hike production of war geods and forget

our petty little peace time desires for a dream world with push-button living. We will get that production when the voters of this nation start telling Washington what fo do. You'd be surprised what one little letter to a Congressman can do along that line, oe BS IF OUR officials, both elected and appointed, can’t give us leadership, then we must force them to, Guns before butter now, is the slogan of Mr. John Q. Public, even if it isn’t for the politician and the industrialist. It's shocking to see the United States in service for the United Nations, dealing with the Reds at all in peace negotiations when it's perfectly obvious they have no desire for peace, Where is that tough American spirit that backed down for no man and refused to dilute its quests for righteousness when bribed with peace talks , . . compromised peace? Let’s get the mud back on our boots in our diplomatic relations with the rest of the world. It may not be “nice” but it’s effective and

t. ; hones ~—Disgusted, City. ‘Job for Military’ MR. EDITOR: - Just a few lines on the subject of Ike for President.

In reading a letter in the Hoosier Forum, written by an ex-serviceman, I have decided to state the opinion of the serviceman today. With our foreign situation in such a mess, due to Korea, we need a leader with a military background. Mr. Truman has done all that is possible for a President to do in a mess like Korea. He just isn’t capable of a job of winning militady conquest, solving the problems of arming a nation and trying to find a peaceful settlement. : ~ We need a man who can at any moment handle a military situation and has the ¢apacity to handle a nation seeking peace. § We must have less politics and have more judgment in choosing our leaders.. Korea is not a situation for a civilian. It is war’ which is the job for a brass hatter, —Pvt. Frederick E. Doty, U. 8., 55137608, 206th Signal Base Depot Co., Camp Atterbury

‘Why Strikes Now?’ MR. ECITOR:

I would like to know why so many places are going on strike for more money and for other things. I know things are high, when you g0 to buy them, T wonder what the people here would do if the Armed Forces would go on a strike when there is a war going on? - The people over here that do go on so many strikes ought to have to go over to Korea and do some fighting and maybe they would be satisfied with what they have at the present time. Another thing, I know that the boys over in Korea would sure love to be at home and not fighting over there. There is another thing I would like to know. Why we should pay such high taxes and when we do get through paying it, where does it go? It goes to some other country and they never pay it back.

—Wondering, City

‘Labor Troubles’ MR. EDITOR: "Every now and then a letter pops up in the Hoosier Forum lambasting labor for striking during time of stress in this nation. I can’t understand why that is, T Past history proves that every time labor

agrees not to demand better wages or working ... conditions, or relationships with management,

management takes advantage of it. . What's wrong with keeping management on its own side of the fence during a war? You don’t ever hear anyone say that management must and should do this and that in their re« lationships with labor during a war. If that’s the case, why say it to labor then? —Disgusted Worker, City,

How Emma and pups will go for green food, even if it isn’t

good, green tooth paste, emer-’

and which, incidentally, has’

again.” What, you may ask, do the dogs think about this? The scientists have been investigating the possibilities of American dogs becoming a race of canine neurotics. Their regearches - are comforting. To the dogs, that is. The experts fed a kennel full of pups nothing but green food until each one of these beasts bore the door of fresh clover after a shower, Then they turned - these dogs loose together, Friend found friend; enemy snapped at enemy. Science breathed easier. It announced, and I quote: “A dog still will smell like a dog to a dog.”

All I know is that I have a °

phyl would be of little help. na 8

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Then I started going a little *

easier on the cream and she never did catch on. Everything was going until the meal makers pulled a fancy one. next box I bought bore a label, which. said homogenized. Emma would have no part of it, even with cream. I read the label. This meal wasn't homogenized for Emma’s sake, but for mine, Now, said the manufacturer, her food would not stick to the dish, It was homogenized and hence would rinse off easily.

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homogenized, I do not know. I have read, however, that dogs are color blind and perhaps they won’t notice. I don’t much object to my dog smelling like dogs. Kind of homey. What I do mind is their smelling like skunks. This is hard to take. It even pains the dogs. If the scientists can do something about this, I'll take care of the doggy odor, even if I have to train all eight of my hounds to chomp green chewing gum,

What Others Say—

g 0 ‘THE PRESIDENT should be very well paid , .. but I think he should be subject to the same trials and tribulations as everyone else when there is a tax increase. Similarly, Congress should

not be a different group tax-wise.—Sem. John C. Williams (R.

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