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Give [ight and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

An Astounding Story AJ. GEN. FRANK E. LOWE'S. interview with ScrippsHoward Reporter Jim G. Lucas puts the famous Tru-man-MacArthur controversy in a new light. Gen. Lowe, a retired reserve officer and an intimate friend of both principals; went to Korea at the beginning of the war as the President's personal representative. In that capacity, he gave advance approval to. Gen. MacArthur's message tothe Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention—which he said Gen. MacArthur sent in the belief that

it was in full accord with the President's views..

When Mr. Truman ordered the statement withdrawn, both Gen. Lowe and Gen. MacArthur were confused and bewildered. « Gen. Lowe said he had never seen a man more “hurt and puzzled” than Gen. MacArthur.

~ » ~ ON HIS return from Korea, Gen. Lowe discovered that some of his more important reports, intended for Mr. Truman, had never reached the President. Apparently they had been short-circuited, either at the Pentagon or by the White House secretariat. It is Gen. Lowe's opinion that the whole Truman-MacArthur controversy might have been avoided had the President received these messages. This picture of a President being denied vital information by those surrounding him is nothing new, since persons in positions of high authority tend to become more and more isolated from unbiased contacts. But it suggests a startling situation nonetheless, because this \ was a case in which men’s lives were at stake. If the tragic break between the President and his Far

Fastern commander was in fact engineered by a small

group of willful men working behind the scenes, all they accomplished was the General's dismissal. That did little injury to the General's reputation and may prove to have

been Harry 8. Truman's most colossal blunder.

n ” ” IF GEN. MacARTHUR's message to the VFW wasn’t American policy then, it is now. The strategic value of Formosa is no longer questioned. (This was the issue on which the attack on Gen. MacArthur was pinpointed. ) And . the administration has vet to find a successful alternative to Gen. MacArthur's plan to end the Korean War. Gen. Lowe's recommendations to Mr. Truman concerning the Wake Island meeting had a vital bearing on‘the whole conduct of the war. 1f they were deliberately withheld from the President, it was little short of treason and he is indeed a prisoner in his own house. Evidence is accumulating that the war has been needlessly prolonged by its long-distance direction by arm-chair generals at the Pentagon and would-be generals in the State Department. They must accept full responsibility for the position they are in, now that the British Socialists, who originated the doctrine of the “limited war,” have been turned out of office by their own people. If the current truce negotiations collapse, and we must revert to the original MacArthur strategy at this late date, history will not be kind to those responsible for the General's recall.

Course of a Cleanup N THE much ballyhooed promises to clean up the Internal Revenue Bureau, several things have been happening: President Truman's plan to reorganize the bureau, and appoint the employees through civil service, was approved by a House investigating committee and by the Citizens’ Committee for the Hoover Report. The Citizens’ Committee long has been urging the President and Congress to reorganize the whole government. Former President Herbert Hoover, .chairman of the commission which developed the government reorganization plans, said any effort to give présent politically appointed Internal Revenue employees civil service status without competitive examinations would defeat the purpose of the plan. Apparently that is not intended. Two Senators who have been deep in the job of spad-

—ing—out the scandals in government introduced a bill to

block secret settlements with delinquent taxpayers. Sens. John J. Williams of Delaware and Richard M. Nixon of California want the bureau to report all compromise settlements to Congress. That will help discourage. under-the-table deals. : But the most effective cleanup step was taken by a jury in Boston which convicted- Denis W. Delaney, the former Massachusetts tax collector, of.taking bribes and falsifying tax liens. Nothing combats corruption like convictions. All of which leads to another interesting question: Whatever became of the big cleanup which was to have béen launched by Mr. Truman’s Department of Justice?

Buck Rogers and Today

PEAKING 98 the American OY of Electrical Engineers, Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson pleaded for the study and invention of the “weapons of 1960 and 1970." It‘takes a long time after the development of a new weapon for it to show up in adequate quantities at the delivery end of a mass-production line. Mr. Wilson says: “We are preparing for a Buck Rogers era, the atomic

fission, super-sonic, electronics age, when yesterday's bril--

liant ideas are already on the way to the scrap heap, and we are, clamoring for the ideas of tomorrow.” But if the administration keeps flattening out the rearmament schedule, because of reluctance to interfere with civilian goods in an election year, we'll come up te the Buck Rogers era lacking even the weapons of 1952.

In the Middle THE RESIGNATION of Undersecretary of State James E. Webb and his replacement by David K. Bruce, present ambassador to France, looks like a distinct gain on both counts.

Mr.”"Webb was a round peg in a square hole. The four

years Mr. Bruce has spent in Europe should have given him a pretty good idea of what the new job is all about. _ But as usual President Truman has started in the middle, when he should have begun at the top of bottom - and worked all the way down or all the way up. The State Department's shortcomings are too deepseated to be cured

by halfway measures.

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"POLITICS. Can Eisehower

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Can Gen. Dwight Eisenhower-"pull a Willkie” to grab the Republican presidential nomination after the Tafts; Stassens, Warrens, etg., have fallen by the way? ..The Eisenhower * people say yes. The gen-

" eral's opponents say no.

_ with the impression that the

How did Wendell Willkie do it?

Nobody who sat through the broiling Phila- |

delphia day in 1940, with the galleries thundering their “We Want Willkie,” will ever forget the dramatic balloting in which the Indiana farm boy turned Wall Street lawyer beat "the political pros at their own game. Rep. Charles Halleck’s (R. Ind.) memorable nominating speech had told the Willkie story briefly. Said Mr. Halleck: “ “A year ago a few personal friends hegan by saying that this man ought to be President

. By Clhvorles Lucey

Pull A Wendel Willkie At GOP

.". 8ix months ago he w % known as an occasional contributor to national magazines. Three months ago a few individuals who made no pretense at a knowledge of politics set out to see what they could do. And then—Iless than nine

weeks ago—the first Willkie-for-President club .

was started.” A month before the Philadelphia convention

. Mr. Willkie’s traveling and speeches had gained

him many friends but not many delegates. The whole thing was too unorthodox and the party's &Lresident-makers weren’t buying the handsome, homespun hero with the shock of hair tumbling across his forehead. . But the man was getting cockier by the day. March polls gave him less than a 1 per-cent vote among GOP rank-and-filers. In May it was 3 per cent, by June 1 it was 10 per cent.

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By Dan Kidney

Rep. Madden to Probe Massacre

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—As chairman of the special House committee to investigate the Katyn Forest massacre of 15000 Polish army officers, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Demqcrat, in-

tends to discover whether the Russians did it or the story is Nazi propaganda. Calling on President Truman with his committee this week, Mr. Madden emerged

President thinks the story of this being a Russian atrocity is true, The whole matter is set forth in dramatic fashion in the American Legion Magazine for February in an inter-’ view with Arthur Bliss Lane, former American ambassador to Poland. He is convinced that the Russians did it, just as the Germans said. According to Mr.-Madden, . Mr. Lane is now working for the Republican National Committee and he may call him to testify. Coming from the first district, in which there are many Polish-Americans, Mr. Madden wants to get the truth about the massacre ahd incidentally save the Polish vote for the Democrats, Former _ Ambassador Lane points out the difficulty of such a project by blaming the Truman administration for what he considers the suppression of evidence on. the subject. The Legion magazine publishes what it calls ‘Long hidden photos of Allied officers who observed the 1943 Katyn exhumation.” One of the cut lines quotes German officers as saying to the Ameri®kns: “You are regular officers of the U. 8. and British armies. Surely you must have an interest in what happened to the officers of the Polish army.”

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According to: Ambassador Lane's account,

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of the massacre blaming the Russians was made by Col. Van Vliet of the American Army

and then suppressed or “lost.” The magazine publishes a picture of Brig. Sen. Clayton Bissel and says he was in charge of G2 at the time and therefore responsible for the Van Vliet report. The cut lines under Gen. Bissel's state: “Placed in charge of all U. S. military intelligence by a mysterious Washington power, he received the Van Vliet report, marked it ‘top secret’ ordered the junior officer into personal silence because of ‘the possible political implications’—and then delivered it to the State Department under circumstances Congress is investigating.”

‘Hated the Germans’ COL. VAN VLIET's conclusions, repeated in 1950 as he had given them to Gen. Bissel were: “I hated ‘the Germans, I did not want to believe them .... . I tried every way to convince myself that the Germans had done it ... We pursued every line of attack to weaken the German story . . . It was with great reluctance that I decided finally that ... for once the Germans were not lying, that the facts were as claimed by the Germans. “I believe that the Russians did it. The rest of the group that visited the site stated to me that they believed the Russians did it . , .” On Sept. 18, 1951 the Congress set up the investigating committee with seven members and Mr.gMadden the chairman. They voted $20,000 to pay the expenses of witnesses. Now -Mr. Madden thinks that some of hearings will have to be held overseas. He dffesn’t hope to get into Poland, but wants to fake testimony from Poles now in England, France and Germany.

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‘EEE-Yah' . . .

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 The Bureau of Internal Revenue will be saddened to learn that as Mar. 15 approaches I am" becoming -— Eeeee-Yah!— increasingly hysterical.

In my distraught and bewildered condition, I'm likely to cheat the tax collector out of his eyelashes. I wouldn't be surprised even if I developed a hysterical psychosis. Then all I'll need is*a Public Health Service doc to swear to my sorry condition and the good, old, humane Department of Justice will refuse to prosecute me for my thievery. This

the tax investigating committee of Rep. Cecil King (D. Cal.) called.on Ellis Slack for an explanation of the government's health policy for tax evaders. « Mr. Slack is the veteran federal attorney who succeeded the celebrated T. Lamar Caudle as acting boss of the tax prosecutors. Mr, Slack’'s wife wears no mink coat. Mr. Slack spends his evenings looking at no gift television set, or. his

plane rides with hot-shots in call a conscientious bureaucrat. about his health policy.

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week-ends taking no free air. tax troubles. He is what yo#dme So :fhere he was talking

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+ surance. It means simply that

He was taking a strong Internationalist line, said England and France were our first line of defense against Hitler, said we should help them in every way possible short of war. But still it didn’t seem as though he had more than a handful of delegates.

By convention time the opposition camps. were beginning to try to cut him down to size— .

he was a utilities executive, he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, his anti-isolationist stand would be poison in the Midwest, etc. But there was a crusading zealotry about that Willkie movement -and it was at evengelistic peak as the convention opened in Philadelphia. The man had risen spectacularly in the preceding couple of weeks in terms of public appeal and

* the chase was in full cry.

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WENDELL WILLKIE went to Philadelphia a political interloper. But people—and delegates » —Vanted to see him. Tom Dewey and Bob Taft “were far in front with delegate support they had been developing for a year, yet neither hat the necessary 501 votes needed for nomination.

The clamor for Mr. Willkie rose as bushels

. of telegrams urging delegates to vote for him

poured into Philadelphia. His tiny hotel suite was a mob scene from morning to night as delegates who once thought they were hitched to someone else began to meet this big, shambling, smiling giant. From the first day

the galleries chanted their “We Want Willkie.”

The balloting began in late afternoon as Alabama cast seven votes for Dewey, six for aft on the first ballot—it was Dewey, 360; Taft, 189; Willkie, 105; Vandenberg, 76: Pennsylvania’s Governor Arthur James, 74: Joseph’ W,

Martin Jr.. 44; Hanford MacNider, 34: Herbert Hoover, 17.

TOM DEWEY fell back a little on the second ballot to 338, Taft went to 203, Willkie cracked a few votes out of Pennsylvania, scattered votes elsewhere to get 171. On ballot 3, Mr. Willkie went “ahead of Taft— it was then Dewey, 315; Willkie, 259: Taft, 212. Joe Martin released his men and they went to Mr. Willkie. Then 27 of Mr. Dewey's 92 New York votes slipped over to Willkie. The Dewey boys began to let go. 4 the total for Willkie was for Dewey 250. The tense, tingling excitement in that convention hall was almost at bursting point. The Dewey strength was about to disintegrate ang fly in all directions. Out among the delegates

On Ballot 308, for Taft 254,

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MR. EDITOR:

I have never written the Hoosier Forum before, but read -it every night. I have had something on my chest for a long time and would like to get it off.

I drove five years for Greyhound Lines out of Indianapolis to all surrounding states. I am starting my 11th year transporting new automobiles from Detroit to Indianapolis, driving every day through Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

I have made trips from here {to California, also from here to New York in the middle of the winter. I have yet to find any state that takes as little care of their highways and city streets as the state of Indiana.

In the summer the highway men will he running over each other mowing weeds from the

roadsides, but let a little snow fall, or a little ice .

on the pavement and there is not one of these men to be seen. I guess they think nature put it there and will eventually take it off. _ Our state of Indiana has a very high accident record during the winter months. If a little care was taken of our highways and streets during these months I think this could be lowered considerably but of course this would mean the boys would have to come out of their nice warm garages to spread a little salt and sand. Do vou think that is too much to ask to save a few lives? —Rex H. Macy, 3469 Delmar St.

‘Welfare and Taxes’ MR. EDITOR:

a.-T am a reader of The Indianapolis Times and I have a question to ask about government welfare checks and state welfare checks. One man receives the state welfare check. He gets a job making $50 a week. He returns the check for that is the law for him if he makes $50 a week. The other man and his wife received $35

~ each per month because the man quit. his job,

went to another state, asked for the government welfare check, got it, then returned to the same state, the same job. : They still receive the $70 per month and the man making $65 per week having steady work. This has been going on for about two®years, Why doesn’t the government put a note in the envelope with each government check asking them if he or she is now employed to return the government check. We taxpayers would not have to-pay such high taxes if their kind of check was returned. It isn't fair to the men he works with, either, when he makes $70 more per month than they get, and them paying taxes so he and his wife can have the extra money. This man and wife said they weren't permitted to get this check as long as he was able to work so he quit work, went to the other state, got it started, came back, went to work and still gets the check after.almost two years,

~—Shelbyville Reader.

By Frederick C. Othman _ How Not to Cheat ‘Uncle’ on Taxes

some tax racketeers also. are first, mighty sick men, Guilty of black crookedness they may be. but if they can prove that the strain of a trial in court might result in their death or insanity, the Justice Department refuses to prosecute. “Why” demanded Rep. Robert W, Kean (R. N.J.). “For humane reasens,” re: plied Mr. Slack. The gentleman from New Jersey said he thought the juige ought to decide; Mr. Slack begged to disagree. Said it saved a lot of time if the

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Bad Roads’

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

Justice Department decided

So I got to thinking about my own hysteria over those withholding forms and sharp letter I got from the Commissioner of Internal No wonder. was Adrian Dewind, the committee's chief counsel, bringing up the case of an unnamed tax who went unjailed because he suffered from what a psychiatrist called hysteria

How many docs, he wondered, will agree on what is hysteria? Not to mention a psychosis?

Taft leaders just as furiously sought to bring over the Dewey strength to the Ohioan. . Alf Landon ofeKansas signaled his state's #hift to Mr. Willkie. New York threw its big vote to him almost wholly.’ There were gains in other states. The fifth ballot total: Willkie 429, Taft 377, James 59, Dewey 57. The galleries were all but wild, the’ puilinge and-hauling among delegates down on the floor such as had not been seen in many conventions, For Willkie, Michigan had to be ctacked—

Wendell Willkie . . . nobody will forget the thunder Sen. Vandenberg’'s meh ane

nounced release of his delegation; a poll shawed 35 for Willkie, two for Taft, one for Mr. Hoover,

and it cracked.

There were gains elsewhere. Slowly the total crept to 499-—two short of enough to nominate, Then, missing the boat, came Pennsylvania— and it was all over. Few times in American political history had a nomination been won so spectacularly. It was won by a nonprofessional but a nonprofessional who wag on the ground. He spent most of that 1940 spring traveling from one end of the dountry to another, shaking hands and meeting people. The sheer force of his personality won many delegates to him at Philadelphia. Gen. Eisenhower has indicated he would not return to campaign at all prior to the Chicago convention in July.” His leaders still hope that he will. Whether he's on the scene in person may be tremendously important.

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‘RR Death Trap’

MR. EDITOR: We're going to regret it if something isn't done about the big,- wide, multiple railroad crossing on English Ave. east of Shelby St.

and the caution flasher signs that guard this death trap. Buildings and fences obscure all visibility at this point. The red flasher signal was going strong at 10:30 Tuesday morning, when I this crossing. ;

stopped for

Behind me, single file, 20 passenger cars and trucks eased to a stop. After 10 minutes’ wait, one by one, they pulled out around me and started across. I waited. They all made it, I never did see the train. The flasher was still going when I went across.

And we do it all the time. —I. W., City

Views on the News

PROBABLY nobody was surprised when the U. 8. Department .of Agriculture announced that the government had developed a new breed of hogs.

THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD reporis that “Harry F. Byrd, a Senator from ihe state of Virginia, ‘appeared in his seat today.’ Should have added that it still is on the Democratic side.

IT TAKES a close student of France to name a full year's premiers.

MONEY 1S getting so cheap that some banks have been redesigned to resemble cafeterias.

EVERY AGE has its philosophy. Ours is firrational-

Sen. Byrd ism. + + « appeared,

SEN. McMAHON is going to run for the Democratic presidential nomination: in Illinois. He is counting on support from old friends he

made as head of the “criminal division.”

Justice Department's

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Nobody was going to trap Prosecutor Slack. All he knew, he said, was that he took the word of a physician from the . Public Health Service about hysteria among criminals. He said, furthermore, there have not been many tax cases dis~ missed because of threatened insanity, Mr. Dewind said he understood they were increasing. And Rep. Kean wondered if Mr. Slack was sure about the humaneness of the Justice Department. Mr. Slack was.

“Wouldn't it he a humanie tarian thing to let honest citie zens know that all cheaters are to be prosecuted, whether t- ill or not?” the Congressman inquired. Mr. Slack said, well,

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ernment heeds the money even more than it wants to see the thieves in jail. And a sick crook pays his 50 per cent penalty, even if he never goes to trial. ” 5 Maybe if more did stand be fore a jury, fiEEesten Rep, Kean, there uldn’t be so many gents with flibbertigibe bets perpetrating frauds, = - Hold everything, gentlemen,

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