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Monday, Jan. 28, 1952

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The Egyptian Crisis HE EGYPTIAN government, which encouraged mob at: tacks on the British garrisons in the Suez Canal Zone, now has fallen victim of the lawless elements it unloosed and then could not control, Whether King Farouk's belated attempts to arrest spreading chaos will be successful remains to be seen. At best the Egyptian government is a thin facade with little substance behind it. When the police in the Egyptian capital joined in burning and smashing Cairo’s principal business district; it was an indication of the extent to which normal restraints had been swept aside. But the king is supposed to have latent qualities of leadership, when he sees fit to assert himself. If he acts quickly and vigorously, he may be able to save the situation. The role of nations such as our own, whose chief concern is that nothing will develop in Egypt which will open " the door to Soviet intervention, is less easy to determine. The fact must be accepted, however, that Britain and Egypt are at war—with indications that heither party is in a position to end the conflict without an embarrassing loss-of face. n = s ” u n THAT BEING the case, outside mediation would appear to be in order. But in Egypt, as in Iran, the government is a government in little more than name, and hamstrung by the fanatical demands of the most reckless elements of its citizenry. So some concessions must be made to the prevailing state of mind, as distatsful as that may be, before successful mediation is possible. : If Britain's position at the Suez has not already become untenable, it is almost certain to become so. It is evident that the old grievances against British rule in Egypt are too deep seated to be settled out of court during at least the present generation. Thus an acceptable substitute should be sought for the British garrisons in the Canal Zone. If London can understand this, and will turn over responsibility for policing the canal to a third power, such as Turkey, a major obstacle to a settlement may be removed. ot 4. wlntil some real basis is found for an agreement, there : would be little point in taking this issue to the United i Nations. A comprehensive United Nations debate on the ! controversy would simply make bad matters worse. Nor : ‘does it appear that there is anything the United States can ‘ do to help until Britain is prepared to break the existing : stalemate.

No Politics, He Says IX A LETTER to a Democratic caucus in Kansas City, : 7 President Truman said: : : “We are not going to play politics with the national ' defense or with any other aspects of our program for i peace. We are going to do what is best for the country, ‘ as we see it.- If anybody is to play politics with the welfare of this country, it will not be the Democratic party.” If Mr. Truman means that no political considerations will affect in any way, the decisions of his administration in a political year, it will be a laudable—if not unbelievable

~~policy.

But many Americans pardonably will accept this righteous pledge with more than a pinch of salt. ©

u o o " as » WHO IS IT who has “flattened out” military production because, for one reason, it is an election year and civilian production would be disrupted? Who was it who delayed imposing inflation controls for many months after Korea? (Price Stahilizer DiSalle reports that the cost-of-living index advanced less than 3 per cent since the price-wage freeze of last January, but went up 10 per cent while Mr. Truman stalled through 1950. ~~ Who is it who has been soothing the American public with high talk about ‘fantastic weapons” while actual “production has been a trickle? Who is it who keeps promising to fight inflation and “then sends Congress a budget with a $14 billion deficit? Who is it ‘who complains he doesn’t have power to hold: down prices and at the same time calls for more Pprice-propping subsidies for.farmers, more welfare spending, more easy credit in some: fields?

= n ou 8 WHATEVER it may be called in Washington, the fighting in Korea is’ war. And the danger of shooting wars elsewhere is not merely something a few people see under the bed. Men die in wars. (To date, 18,000 Americans have died in Korea; and 83,000 others are missing, captured or wounded.) : In such circumstances, there is no room for anyone to play politics, including the Truman administration.

Fencing in Sex RITAIN has an acute shortage of coal miners, and Italy is eager to supply Britain's needs in that respect. But sex has intervened. The British miners object to the .importation of Italians, claiming the Latins are too attractive to their wives and daughters. yo Seeking a solution to the problem, a Member of Parliament has proposed that Italian miners be assigried to certain pits exclusively, so they would be segregated from the normal life of English mining villages. Romance isn’t that easily controlled. If the Italians were fenced in, the gals would scale the walls if the boys didn’t push the walls over. rn, | If the British male can’t stand foreign competition, he'll ~ have to dig his own coal or suffer the consequences. And * - the consequences will mean something less than a full dinner pail. - That being the case, the prediction is ventured that love will triumph when the women's vote is recorded.

it inHat . -... . . TR JAMES B. CONANT, president of Harvard Univer7 sity, said that the university's income from endowments has been cut in half by inflation. Be ‘President Truman says we can win the

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MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT . .

Who's The Best Fightin’ Man In The

HARRISON, Me,’ Jan. 28—There's a report somewhere: in President Truman's files: which says the U. 8. Marine is the best fighting man’ in the world. The President's own observer

‘Maj. Gen. Frank E. Lowe, wrote it from Korea.

President Trurfan once started a first-class argument by chargigg the Marines had a better propaganda machine than Stalin. Gen, Lowe, a World War I artillery captain and a.former di-

rector of Army reserves, said today he wrote

a detailed report about the Marines in Korea for the President last June “and drew comparisons.” In that report, he said in substance that the Army has much to learn from the Marines. @ oh Hb :

GEN. LOWE revealed that Gen. Douglas MacArthur offered command of the Tenth Corps, created for the Inchon landings in September, 1950, to Lt. Gen, Lemuel Shepherd if he would bring the Second Marine Division to Korea. Gen. Shepherd, now Marine Corps -commandant,. then commanded the fleet Marine forces in the Pacific. That would have meant committing the, entire Marine Corps and neither Gen. Shepherd nor Gen. C. B. Cates, then comman-

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dant, would agree. ‘The job went to Lt. Gen, Edward Almond, Gen. MacArthur's chief of staff, 3 “ob » ‘ WHEN Maj. Gen. Bryant Moore, Ninth Corps commander, was killed in a helicopter accident last spring, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway (at that time Eighth Army commander) gave the corps to Maj. Gen. -O. P. Smith, commander of the First Marine Division, Gen, Lowe said he told Gen. Ridgway “that Gen. Smith was the logical man and that his permanent selection would help make unification a’ reality. He said Gen, Ridgway told him he realized that, but said the matter was out of his hands and Gen. Smith's appointment was temporary. An Army general was flown from the United States to succeed Gen. Moore. Gen. Lowe made it plain he wasn't reflecting on the individual Army man, for whom he has a great deal of respect. GIs and Marines, he said, represent “the same cross section of the United States.” The difference is in Marine training and the fact the Leathernecks disdain a lot of Army frills and nonessentials. At one time, he claimed, 60 per cent of the Army re-

By Talburt

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Trips Ahead for

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Hoosier farm women, who won top honors here in 1950 with their 2400 voice chorus, are getting ready now to go “international” with the blessing of the State Department. The women, in their caps and gowns, sang here as one of the state _ features of the Washington sesquicentennial celebration. A special stage had been constructed for them on Capitol Hill and Gov. Henry F. , Schricker accompanied the ° choristers here. " Those in charge of the special events programs, which continued throughout 1950, rated the group as tops for any state. 4 Now they are going to Albert Stewart Canada and sing — 3000 « +» singers strong—according to Marvin Myers, assistant to the director, Albert P. Stewart of Purdue University. The women all are members of the economic clubs that function under the Purdue extension service, Mr. Stewart also is the director of the famed Purdue Glee Club which had just returned from a triumphant tour of Europe and sang several numbers with the women’s chorus here in 1950.

South of Border, Too

MR. MYERS also is taking the matter up with the State Department of a “good neighbor tour” for the glee club throughout South America. 8ix special trains and numerous busses will transport the Indiana farm- women to’ the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto Aug. 23, Mr. Myers explained. The women now are working on the special musical numbers and settings which will commemorate the theme of

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“the unguarded border.” Nowhere else in the world is there such a thing as an international boundary that is completely unguarded as that between the United States and Canada. And the Hoosier women will celebrate that fact in song Mr. Myers said. :

Visit U.S. Bases

THE PURDUE glee club would tour all of the South American countries and visit the defense bases in the U, 8. Caribbean according to present plans. This, too, would be a good will project, with appearances in the capital cities and the university towns, Mr. Myers said. His conferences here included the Civil Aeronautics Board, which must give the greenlight to Braniff Afrlines to transport the-singers from Florida to the South American countries. Military Air Transport Service would handle the transportation to the military bases. The entire trip would take approximately 27 days and each glee club singer would pay his own way at $100 over-all. The club would come here first to make some TV programs for the U. 8. Treasury and then go to Miami for the Shriners convention there June 15.

Records in Demand

THE INDIANA State Society of Washington, which held jts annual dance for the congressional delegation at the Shoreham Hotel Saturday night, is also ready to sponsor a program of the glee club here. i : The club previously sponsored the Purdue singers en route to Europe. As a result, Wash-

ington has proven a good market for many of

the glee club's recordings, Mr. Myers reported. “This stressing of international good will through music has caught on,” he said. “I am sure that we will have ardent supporters for the idea in both Canada and throughout the Latin American countries. ! “It is a whole lot more profitable than war.”

PATRIOT . . .

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placements arriving in Korea had MOS’s (military occupation specialities) “other than combat infantryman.” ‘. vo, Oo OS “THAT'S a lot of damned foolishness,” he said. A . “The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines,” he said. “Lord, how they could fight. The Reds told us they were afraid to tangle with the Marines, and avoided them when they could.be located. If you wanted to find the war, you just looked for the Marines. It is utterly .impossible for me to express in words my admiration and respect for the United States Marines, from top to bottom and back again.”

What makés a Marine?

wx “They are hard, tough and thoroughly indoctrinated,” Gen. Lowe, said, ‘their basic training makes them flexible, Every man is basically a Marine, The division command post at Hagaru was defended by cooks, clerks and bandsmen. I saw a platoon of gunners from one of their field artillery battalions integrated into an infantry platoon under an artillery lieutenant. They stepped right into the line and functioned perfectly—get that, perfectly—as an infantry. team.” Gen. Lowe's favorite story involved a reported conversation between Chairman Carl

- Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Armed Services

Committee and Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, former Marine commandant. 750,000-man Marine Corps. Gen. Vandegrift said that was impossible. Mr. Vinson said he was sure Congress would approve and vote the money, “You don't understand, Mr. Chairman,” Gen. Lowe quotes Gen. Vandegrift. “There just aren't 750,000 young men in this country fit to be Marines.” Gen. Lowe said he was regarded with suspicion when he first showed up with the Marines bearing presidential credentials. “At Inchon,” he recalled with -a chuckle, “Craig (Brig. Gen. Edward A. Cralg, commanding the 1st Marine Brigade) made a special trip

World 2——‘Why, The Marine’

Mr. Vinson proposed a

out to the ship to ask Gen. Smith what the hell he was to do with that guy, Lowe. They weren't fooling me when they stuck me off with the South Koréan Marines, We used to sit around and laugh about it when we got to know each other.” & BH "GEN. LOWE became the Marines’ hest friend. At one time, he byllied a shipload of fresh meat and vegetables—300,000 pounds— out of the Army and sent it to the 1st Marine Division just before it went into the assault. “At least, he said, “the Marines who died that ‘morning died with fresh eggs and beef steak in their bellies.” : The General was impressed with the disci. pline—*the, snap and polish”—of Marines out of combat, and the comradeship of officers and enlisted men under fire, im About Army divisions in Korea, he says: “They are all superior, every damned one of them. Otherwise, we wouldn't be there, The game goes for our Navy and Air. We couldn't have gone into Korea and lasted five minutes without our Air Force. And by that, I mean air power from land and sea. The Navy put a tight blockade around the Korean coast and

_ could have done the same thing with China if

we'd let them. The Hungnam oT was a. naval epic. There may be some quibbling about unification in Washington but there's not a damned bit out there.” 5 Tle ly N . GEN. LOWE isn’t convinced we've used onr

forces wisely in Korea inh recent months, hows,

ever. “A fighter who doesn't know how to jab doesn’t belong in the ring! he said. “Our jab is our air and sea supremacy.” He's also disturbed that the Marines are being used as a straight infantry division. He says that’s not their function. They've been in the line. more than a year. Their job is to establish beachheads. “Since they reached their line at Inchon last September,” he said, “they haven't been used as Marines.”

U. S. MILLIONS . . . By James Daniel

What's the Story Behind Iran?

WASHINGTON, Jan, 28—The State Department says it's untrue that Iran has been permitted to qualify for $23.5 million in U. §. ald without giving the assurances that Congress contemplated under the Mutual Security Act of 1951. But the Department has no examples of other nations oo vin as noncommittal as Iran being ruled eligible for aid. ; In voting $7 billion for foreign countries, Congress ; last fall * distinguished - between (1) giving military and military-supporting economic 3 and technical aid to acknowledged Allies, and (2) & giving non-military economic ig and technical assistance to Allies and to neutrals. For both types of help, the President had first to decide that aid from the U. 8. would help American security, In addition, each assisted country had to have “agreed to join in promoting international understanding and good will, and in maintaining world peace, and to take such action as may be mutually agreed upon to eliminate the causes of international tension.” Countries receiving direct or. indirect military aid—the purpose for which the bulk of the funds was voted—also had to give four more assurances. These dealt with such things as living up to mutual defense treaties, making the maximum effort to raise their own military production and avoiding waste of American help. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh refused to qualify under the military aid clause, so American military shipments to Iran were stopped. Theré was still a question whether he could come in for “Point Four” economic and technical aid.

After prolonged discussions, in which Mossadegh balked at signing anything that could be construed as a departure from strict neutrality, American representatives in his country decided that if he would simply write a letter, saying Iran subscribes to the ‘principles of the United Nations,” that would do.

As a United Nations charter member, Iran complied. Mossadegh sald his country gives “allegiance” to the United Nations principles. But even in conceding that, he pointed out he was “assuming no new obligations.” He was, however, interested in American help—‘in cash or kind.”

This note—plus.yJ. S. Ambassador Loy Henderson’s two-sentence acknowledgment, in which he said only that he hopes American aid will be of maximum benefit to the Iranian people—are construed by the State Department as sufficient compliancé with the foreign aid bill requirements. : : The Department says an exchange of notes is just as good as a signed, sealed document—

Mossadegh «.. cash or kind

~ conventional treaties, in the opinion of one State . Department official, are

merely “for the

archives.”

Another point on which the State Department is sensitive is the wisdom of giving Iran $23.5 million (U. 8. aid last year: $1,460,000) when the Iranian government gould alleviate much of {ts distress by coming to terms with Britain on the oil question.

Not Much Gold

SINCE Iran nationalized its oil industry last April, the government has been losing oil income at the rate of $100 million a year. Iran has drawn against its entire gold deposit with the world bank—about $9 million, and also has

By Frederick C. Othman

depleted $40 million in fixed-value British pounds which wera part of her currency backing, The gold that's left—perhaps as much as $100 million—is considered the minimum nec« essary to keep Tran's currency good. Fortunate« ly for Mossadegh, the oil troubles coincided with

a local price slump, This, with booming exports

of rugs and agricultural products, has helped forestall the Iran government's day of reckons ing. Also the government had large stocks of sugar and tea. The State Department says its economic and

*technical assistance projects won't be a substi’

tute for Iran's lost ofl revenue. But the ime poverishment of the Iranian treasury—the government is- paying many thousands of idle oil workers—will greatly limit the effectiveness of American assistance. .

Hoosier Forum

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

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‘Good Work’

MR. EDITOR: Thanks a lot to you and to your staff for the complete and colorful coverage of the Block's fire last Tuesday, and its effect on the transit system. With help from the Police and Fire Departments we got everything back on regular route by 4 p. m. that day in time for the evening peak. That front page picture in the final edition was the best piece of work I think I've ever seen. - —Ralph G. Hesler, Indianapolis Railways, Inc,

‘Answer Needed’

MR. EDITOR: ; I can no longer resist the urge to answer some of the critical letters I've been reading in your Hoosier Forum lately regarding our mayor, Alex Clark, who in my opinion is doing a wonderful job, considering the chaotic cone ditions he inherited from the former mayor, Mayor Clark certainly isn’t responsible for the Police Department mess. Bayt should receive any criticism due for hiding the facts, —Rgader, City

Views on the News

SEN. BRIEN McMAHON checked out of the Illinois presidential primary in favor of President Truman. Word probably got around that the Senator had been head of the Justice Department criminal division. & & THAT SUEZ WAR has warmed up to the point where | Egypt is thinking of fighting &¥ with soldiers instead of civil- *# fans. - : THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT isn't going to prosecute the Republican governor of Towa for tax delinquencies. Democrats know how it feels to get caught. So Sb : BEFORE and after Feb. 12, Republican speakers will have proved that Lincoln is for Taft and/or Eisenhower.

CENESSNERESNINRNANERENY,

Mr. Lincoln «os for Taft?

Hired Hand Studies to Join the Army

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-—I think I'd better tell you about my Indian boy, Victor Chumpitaz, and his war with the North Koreans. It has left him a little confused. Victor, you may remember, is the 24-year-old Inca Mrs. O. brought up from Peru to help

us operate our rundown acres in Fairfax County, Va. He has been a wonder; his only complaint is that we pay him too much and don’t give him enough’ work to do. He'd hardly arrived before he received greetings from the draft board. What, demanded Victor, was. this? I éxplained that we had a war on our hands in North Korea. Victor said where was that? He also

terest in shooting any Chinamen, .. . ‘ : I could see his point. So we checked" with the draft board,

for Victor té6 sign: THis said, in effect, that in trade for

dould. My Spanish is not the

didn't have time.

He wanted throat to watch him suffering

. sald he personally had no in-

which sént along-a document

being exempted from the Army he renotinced ‘any future op-

best, but Victor got the idea. He said did I think if he signed that, it would make him look like a no-good Latin? A kind of south-of-the-border heel? I had to tell him that some peo-

ple might feel that way. » - #”

* VICTOR LIT into the labor around our place harder than ever before. He hadn't much to say for about a week. Nor much of a smile. But he rebuilt the chicken house, includ« ing a new concrete floor, and he cleaned §p the barn as it never had bekn cleaned before. Then he annpunced that he

concluded that since he was taking full advantage of life in the United States, he owed it a little something. He said if our govern-

ment wanted him to help fight.

a war way off somewhere, the

government doubtless knew what it was doing. Victor tore up that insulting document. Soon thereafter he received a

card 1-A by the draft board.

saving he was classified

to get the place all fancied up before he went off to war. So the other day the draft board called him for his physical. Victor put on his new necktie with an American flag embroidered on it and headed for Fairfax, All day long, with time out for lunch, the docs thumped him and peered down his throat. They asked him questions and they even gave him a list of printed items to answer with pen and ink.

VICTOR TOLD me about it that night. His health seemed to be good he said. But those people handed him questions printed in English and how could he answer them when he couldn't even read them? You've guessed it :

He received still another no-

tice saying that he was unacceptable to the Army. Nearby

broke his heart. I tried to console him by saying the Army -

really did like him, but how could ‘he be a soldier when he

couldn't understand the

colonel's orders?

with his books. If the Army’ll try him again in about a year, Victar'll be ready to fight that war he doesn’t rightly under stand. ;

SPEAK WELL

WHEN you have something bad to say . . . about a gal - or guy . . . before you do just think awhile , , . then let it pass right by . , , or if you are about to do . , , some under-

handed thing . . . think of all

thé pain and heartache .’, . that it's sure to bring . . for * no doubt many times you've

felt . . . the thrust of someone

cruel . . . who used most eve law they knew , , . re golden rule . . . so by that token you should try . , , to boost instead of knock .'% . when you're inclined to #ay something . . . that's only

-meant to mock . , . and n

the final curtain falls . , .

“you'll be in line to go . , . °

where ever is happy Te the milk and honey ou oa ren a Burrough's poems in &

MONDAY Ur¢ 2 Dem Senat For Sc

WASHINGT( —Two influe Senators called up to $7 billionIn military and —in President ' billion budget.

Sen. Paul H. | a vigorous e« said Congress. budget by che from the spend raising an ext plugging tax * He proposed in the $51 billio which he said waste proportic civilian agencies to $2 billion re aid. ! Sees D

Sen. Burnet South Carolina, Senate Banking dicted Congres than $3. billion f budget. He for military spend foreign aid. . "The ax can “must go deep,” § ima broadcast ¢ Broadcasting 8; Appearing on gram, Sen. Evi (R-IL.) ‘sxpresse prospective. $14 fiscal 1953 can b or $8 billion. D. A. Huley, U. 8. Chambe topped that. Ek statement that billion from the cluding a cut of proposed $10 bi program. There has "be ‘mand from mo: crats in Congres publicans, for |

. -place of tax-rai

year. Some of t administration called for carefi money. , However, Cha serling of the P .of Economic A yesterday that t sional spending “rather close to He said on a casting Co. rad program that Cc at the world si clude this is abou to do.” Sen. Douglas, over 15 Illinois said the nation lion deficit if all Mr. Truman clared this wou bad” inflation ° hardest at perso comes. Sen. Douglas cut in the budge expected deficit !

Accused of Son-in-Law TERRE HAU"’ —A charge of 1 today against C 49, who is accus shots into the 1 in-law, Lester I lowing a family Det. Chief Ja Mr. Cook and were involved with Hickman after they retur {to taverns. Hic baby-sitting at } accused Betty of

your mother,” ported. Mr. Cook a

Hickman from said Hickman re caliber rifle and Mr, Cook.

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