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Hoosierland bythe Indiana Department of Conservation _are certainly a lot of trouble, Hope the effort pays off. . : Three consepvation officers were on the welcoming committee at the Union Station. Like a ‘dope, I asked Richard Pattmann, Chester Brogeks and Del- . hert (Red): Ferrtn if I could join” the party. ’ “The train from St. Louis is supposed to arrive at 6 a.m.” said Officer Pattmann, “We're getting’ 44 crates of rabbits ‘this: shipment, We .can!t wait, for you, so be on time. if you want to come along.” Should .have stayed in bed. Three impatient game wardens were pacing the Railway [.xpress docks at 6 a. the shipment was arriving at: 7: Fine. We had

coffee and cigarets, for ge : 0 eae on THERE is nothing mdre enjoyable at 6 a. m,

than a lot of conversation about rabbits, foreign rabbits, yet, which will. multiply for the express surpose bf growing up to be targets for nimrods

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At 7 o'clock ‘we marched upstairs and poked round baggage cars. Express workers didn't now where the rabbits were. Furthermore, they

m. Officer Pattmann said"

* Rabbit Chore Is Headache

“For another ‘hour the four of us shined benches ‘with our tréuser seats, wore grooves in

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‘stairs and: platforms. Had we been in the field,

we probably would have run down- 44 crates of rabbits, Missouri. flelds; that is ..The law of averages was working for us. On one 6f our-many trips past a line of baggage cars, we were hailed by a worker. He asked if we were looking for rabbits. They were in. the car. “I can smell them,” he growled.

>» 3 / EACH WOODEN and wire crate contained 12 rabbits. Their quarters weren't spacious. A

compartment was the size of a shoe box which was lined with alfalfa. For the journey a rabbit had two halves of an apple. « pie ° Every rabbit was checked before Officer Pattmann signed the receipt. Seven of the 528 would never roam the fields again. The wardens thought it was a good shipment. , “We ought to give them cold tablets or cough medicine,” ‘suggested Officer Brooks. “This first night in Indiana will be a shock.” “How about mufflers and overshoes?” asked Officer Fervin. v “- oo o “WOULD a small flask of brandy be appropriate?” My contribution to the welfare of our furry friends from Missouri set off Pattmann’s dynamite cap and he exploded. ’ “Let’s get these yak, yak, yak. ...." " ~

Pattmann found-spots in Marion County to

didn't know for sure whether the train from St."Swelease bunnies that would make a Kit Carson

Louis was in.

We trampled downstairs, through the express -

docks, asked questions, talked to the train caller in ‘the station, went upstairs and by 8 a. m.,, we were convinced the rabbits had arrived. . oo oe

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OFFICERS BROOKS and Ferrin had planned to meet members of conservation clubs in Shelby and Rush Counties by 9 -to release Missouri bunnies in the fields and hollows. Complications. My attitude, never any good In the morning, was that if we could cool our heels on platforms, the guys in Rush and Shelby Counties could wait in some warm slough. : “Those rabbits aren't going to appreciate this Hoosier hospitality,” I snapped. “Two nights and a day on a rattling baggage car and a day lost in the station.” . :

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It Happened Last ‘Night _

By Earl Wilson :

NEW YORK, Feb. 1—So they burned Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo—I wonder if thee flames. got to room 3327 oe : Last August, the Beautiful Wife and Pasha Wilson spent three of the most distressingly hot days of our lives in that.room, or out of it. To escape the heat, we sat on that famous verandah and joked about the anti-British feeling which has now burst into riots. . : We went out to the Sphinx and Pyramids and fell off a camel—and I can still see the turbaned, long-robed, | slow-moving elevator operator who took us up in the lift afterwards to room 332. “Pasha,” they called you to get You to tip well. "Twas no Waldorf, that werld-famous hotel No Shamrock. No Hotel Beverly Hills. It would seem rickety beside the Miami Beach palaces. But “everybody” stayed there—or went to th celebrated terrace for a drink. One of our fellow dwellers was Anita Colby, the famous model known as “The Face,” once the favorite companion of Clark Gable.

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WE DIDN'T enjoy the hotel, was. Such a renowned ditioning in the rooms. the flies- . They don't swat flies in Egypt, just as they don’t photograph King Farouk's palace. “Slap, slap,” you went all night. Gasping for air, I stood in our window looking down at Ibrahim Pasha St. the very street where the torch-carrying rioters roamed a few hours ago. g The B. W. suffered more.

famous as it

dwelling—and ho air conFans were scarce. And

I'd move my type-

"writer .in the bjg bathroom early ih the morning

and write there. so she could sleep. : But, she couldn't. It was too hot. > , Once from the terrace I saw a long-skirted Pasha hurrying past with a servant trotting -at his side holding a parasol over his head. Always the befezzed dragomen, or guides, buzzed around the doorway, bowing and kissing your hand if you'd tipped them well. “I wish you long life and happy time,” they tften told Pasha Wilson.

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ONCE we sat on the verandah with Robert L. Schmitt of New York, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer operations in Cairo. , “They hate the British here so,” he said “the Americans wonder if they ought to wear cowboy

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 1-It is just as well for personal peace of mind, IT" keep telling myself,

“that old age is just over the hill, and if the j'ints

creak and the breath comes gaspingly, fine, I would not care to be a child these days, apart from global uncertainty and the lowering threat of an atomic humpty dumpty perched ptecariously on the E wall. The vast amount of learn- EB ing, up for juvenile absorption, staggers the brain. — You are looking at the mechanical dullard who never quite understood why H, when doubled and introduced to O, turned .out damp instead of solid. ; ~ A nice lady named Mrs. Williams—come to-think of it, she was the only jolly scientist I " : ever met—decided finally that I was a moron, chemically; and ceased trying to stuff me with acids and elements and things. She quit on me after the only thing I ever mixed in a test tube blew up and buriit a hole in’ the marble ‘Taboratory slab. Even then she worried. about the atom falling into the wrong hands.

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"IT WAS the same way in mathematics. I still cannot see any sense in A plus B equalling the cube root of Z if magnified to the Nth power. This -is ‘idiot talk, thought IT, counting rapidly on my fingers to find out why John had two apples and Mary, only had one. It seemed durned celfish of John, at-the time, and 1 believed him to be no proper gentleman. . Fractions left me as addled as an economist.in Washington, and such highfalutin’ folderols as trigonometry and integral calculus were as distant as the stars and twice as dim. Economics, as taught in college, aroused a deep ' suspicion” in this youthful breast, and I discover later that I may have been right. Lord Keynes sounded phony then and time has proved ‘his spendthrift theories no more sourid. At least none of his principles have made him -look good. I had an awful time with the Punic wars and the Wars of the Roses and the Whigs and’ Tories and Roundheads’ and Monarchists and pharoahs . and kings and sich. What phzzled me mostly was-the fact that every time somebody got

through with one war he hustled off and started Boundaries- were al- -

or at least invited another. ways changing and they kept harping in the ‘books on something called “the balance of power.” I know what it’s supposed to be, now, but nobody hag seen it work In actuality. Se A ¢ > o-al : - . AND SO I ‘figure that if I was dumb then,

see

when things were pretty simple, and WW I was still referred to as the Great War-——when the atom .

. and the jet and the guided missile and the snorkel

sub snd antibiotics and mechanical brains and ‘all the other stepchildren of physics were fuzzy \ dreams—it I couldn't dig it«then I sure couldn't Tow see po dren in New

he papers where high school chilYork -are going to get handy dandy ay Lo 2) . Ey wr Hd 5 Ly a

from the English.”

3% EARL'S PEARLS . .. .: .

whistle. I hope Brooks and Ferrin did better in Shelby and Rush Counties. Of all the fine lawns and fields we have, Pattmann had to choose jungles... Good cover, he said. Why, one rabbit we released in a heavy thicket took two hops, one look, and jumped four feet straight - up. Another left Pattmann’s hands like a bolt of lightning and for all ‘we know he may be in Missouri right now. on ; THREE RABBITS were released to each area and where these areas are, only Pattmann and the rabbits know. The way he handled them you would think they were household pets. “Easy, baby, easy. Here we go, little feller, and be care~ ful of cats and cars.” Swoosh—baby’'s: powder puff was a blur. Hope they like it here. the poor li'l ol’ displaced bunnies.

Shepheard’'s Hotel ‘Wasn't Much Anyway something; ;

hats, or

to distinguish themselves And now we read that his theater was burned. It seemed most unwarlike those sultry days only five months ago, sitting-on ‘the verandah. Mr. Schmitt was looking forward to introducing lovely Esther Willlams’ bathing suit films to Egypt this January, and he thought she would ‘make new friends for America. We're afraid that Esther. Williams, if not the Marines, has landed too late. yt

oo > THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . Denise Darcel's ex, Peter Crosby, is'-now barred froni El Morocco (where he -once doused a drink. in Denise's face) because the ofher a. m. he took a swing at somebody -he thought was flirting with Sonia Loew. Irwin Kramer, of the Hotel Edison mint, and TV actress Margie Winters celebrated their second . (or “return”) engagement at the. Blair House. Tallulah Bankhead sent a note to the wife of her attorney, Mrs. Dofiald Sewell (actress Eugenia Rawles), who was in Lenox Hill Hospital expecting a baby, saying: “Jack Carson and I are going to sing a duet.on ‘The Big Show’ and if that doesn’t ‘bring the baby, nothing will help.”. Sure enough, the baby, a .boy, was born (so they insist) during the duet, and Tallulah was officially appointed godmother. The Astor’s.Bob Christenberry -was-in—Toots Shor’s dis= cussing diets. Toots, who likes to. see big meals and big checks, roared, “Talk about diets ip your own joint.” . . . The Pete Marshalls (of Noonan & Marshall at the Latin Quarter) had a son . . . Jimmy Durante's talking ‘to Zanuck about his life story in films, «+ The Palace's Solly Schwartz will see Jack Benny, also Abbott & Costello, about following Judy Garland. . . Lionel Hampton will tour Israel . . . Nat King Cole’ll play the Paramount before his movie,

Margie Winters

WB : Apparently, says Jackie (Copacabana) Miles, modern girls try to

outsmut each other, . , . That's Earl, bfother. 3 *

Modern Miracles Baffle Uncle Bob

little .samples of radioactive elements to play with in the labs. The atom bakery in Oak Ridge is going to ship up some batches of iodine, phosporus, sodium and cobalt, fifesh from the oven. The boys and girls will now get radio isotopes to play with instead of spitballs, and while they say .none_ of the stuff is seriously combustible, I'm not so sure. With my cunny-thumbed talents, I guarantee I would have found a way to blow up Manhattan. ’

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NOTICE, too, that they deal today in rare earths called ‘lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, samarium, gadolinium, thulium, erbium, terbium, dysprosium, and ytterbium. Oh, one ounce of ytterbium: does not. a prison make, but I bet it smells awful in a retort. And how about this here new estradiol cyclopentypropionate they give ¢ows to increase the milk output? Who can spell it, let alone pronounce it? : Af for a spirited recitation on global politics, the oil situation, Indian politics, the Russian attitude toward everything, the sterling areas, war in Korea, who is up to what in Indonesia—why, rise up, little man, and speak your piece. Tell us how to bake an H-Bomb, sis, using only a mathematical formula and the sun for-a pressure cooker, While you discourse so learnedly, Uncle Robert will be lounging in the.nearest bar & grill, reflecting moodily on the reaction of ‘hops to malt and the joys of an unlearned«old age.

Dishing the Dirt ‘By Marguerite Smith

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: Q—I ‘have heard you sometimes suggest speakers for club programs. Do you? Program chairman. A- Yes. What started out to be a rescue mission for an occasional desperate program chaiiman has become at times almost a speaker's bureau. But we do have many gifted folks here in’ Indianapolis who truly are rated experts when ‘they're away from home. So it seems only fair to suggest tem to home town clubs, too. If you do ask for program suggestions please include your telephone nuRibEP just to ‘save time. . QP ape ce Q—Please send me your two leaflets on African violets. Mrs. George Sojak, 3242 Winthrop Ave. . . A==Sorry to report we ran out of the first, or beginner's, leaflets. These will be ready again soon. But rather than make you wait too long

¢ Read. Margaerite: Smith's Garden Column 2 : in The Sunday Times i :

we sent out the second one on common African

violet troubles. New readers who want either of these free leaflets should send a stamped, self“addressed envelope to Marguerite, Smith, Dishing . the Dirt, THE INDIANAPOLIS ‘TIMES, Indian_apolis: 9, Ind. dd eH

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Capt. Fried Cheated Wild Sea 3 Times

By WILLIAM H. RUDY Scrippi-Howard Staff Writer

AMIDSHIPS on the hulls of merchant “vessels you will find, graven .into the

metal plates, a vertical line crossed by several shorter Kori-* zontal lines. The marking

varies somewhat but the top-

most line usually carriss the legend TF. Below it in order

are F, IS, 8, W, and at the bot-

tom, WNA. . These are the Plimsoll Lines, which show how deeply a vessel

smay be loaded, and they are a

tribute .to the savagery of the North Atlantic. :

pe. of ” Je FOR TF stands for Tropical

Fresh water, F for Fresh, IS for the Indian Ocean in Summer, 8 for Summer; W for Winter, and WNA. for Winter in the North Atlantic, That sea has earned a special distinction. It - cannot be trifled with. This has been a bitter Jan; uary on the North Atlantic as its - gale-driven icy those of most other parts of the world, have battered at merchant shipping. Twenty-six years ago there was another January when the North Atlantic put on a similar show. For six days the wind reached Force 12 on the Beaufort Scale — hurricane Ships were broken as the Flying Enterprise - was broken last month, ‘and their rescues eaptured the public's imagination just as did the deeds of Capt.

"» Henrik Kurt Carlsen.

At 5:45 a. m. on Jan. 24, 1926, the radio operator on the liner President Roosevelt, then

three dots, three dashes, three dots also were heard by thousands of DX radio fans trying to get England or their headsets. .. : :

=" Ld LJ THE DISTRESS signal was

from the British freighter, Antinoe, * battered and helpless some six hours distant from the Président Roosevelt. Capt. George Fried, 47-year-old mas"ter of the U.S. liner, headed for the Antinoe and reached her about noon. ; In a 60-knot whole gale the President Roosevelt took a position a quarter of a mile to ."windward of the Antinoe, bare-Yv--visible inthe violent snow

squalls. The passenger’ liner was rolling 35 degrees. The - Antinoe appeared about to

sink. Capt, Fried ordered oil from his liner’s bunkers pumped into the mountainous seas. ' It had excellent effect, he reported , later. “Her captain claims this saved the Antinoe from sink- « ing,” he said. = But the angry North Atlantic was not to be .conquered so easily. It continued to balk all attempts to lower a lifeboat.

Night came and at 9 p. m. the

President Roosevelt lost .contact with the Antinoe,. which

STALIN'S ‘MEIN KAMPF'—NO, 5

Is The U.S. Walking Into A

By DAVID SNELL “. Seripps-Howard Staff Writer BY ACCEPTING on face value the Stalin-Tito “feud,” the United States may be walking into. a trap in Yugoslavia. "This newspaper reveals today for the first time the startling fa®t- that—a full quarter of a century. ago—=Stalin planned a “split” between a Communist Yugoslavian regime and. the ‘Soviet bloc. It happened just as he planned it. ~~ Stalin foresaw World War II in Europe and correctly esti. mated that it would bring com-. munism to power in Yugoslavia. He planned for Yugoslavia to ‘secede’ from the Soviet bloc—

to* gain “national territorial autonomy’’—in the wake of that war. !

As audacious and cunning as any subterfuge ever devised by the Kremlin's malignant genius, Stalin's program for Yugoslavia. as originally conceived-—throws

- new light on the Stalin-Tito rift.

» ” Ld THE PLAN .is found’ in Stalin's book “Marxism and the National and Colonial Question”

(unexpurgated), providing .im- .

portant clues that bear on. the true nature of the feud and its possible usefulness to the Soviet

~~Union. ' This book is today the

bible and blueprint’ of Soviet foreign policy, but .it is little known in the United States outside of Communist circles. Published in 1927, the book shows that Stalin drafted his

Yugoslavian ‘secession’ program two years earlier and called upon the Communist

party of Yugoslavia to adopt it . officially. = Neither Yugoslavia nor the international Communist movement has ever re- . nounced it.

Significantly, Yugoslavia and

singled out for special discus-

gion in the book. The reason, as advanced by Stalin, was- that:

“ hoth would vary from the nor-

. mal pattern of vevolution in.

; colonial and dependent nations.

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waters, .

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in » midocean, received an SOS. The

«immediate one ‘he wrote, “it map to see why. ~~ . would shield Europe's under- 2 might. definitely -become im- What are the “ext al Jag- bellys : «ioc el ” oy pads a HEL : rr La To a 2 z SE is

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1952

Again Capt. Fried hove to a quarter of a mile to windward. Again there were snow squalls and the weather was worsening. Capt. Fried decided to- act quickly, for the Florida's leq rail was awash. . Eight seamen under Chief Of« ficer Harry Manning, who later skippered the new liner America, volunteered-to man a lifeboat and go fo the Florida, They. were unable ‘td approach nearer than 50 feet. A heaving line was thrown aboard the Florida and a heavier line made’

NEAR DEATH-—The Antinoe, listing heavily to starboard, - shortly before it made its final plunge into the angry waters of the Atlantic.

now had a flooded engine room: and no power for her lights or radio. ~ y . » » n NOT UNTIL 3:40.p. m. th. next day was the Antinoe sighted again. Her No. 3 hatch was stove in and shg was list

ing. heavily to starboard. Capt. Fried decided a rescue attempt fast. One by one the Italian had to be made. fo seamen pulled themselves The liner. maneuvered into . : - - ‘thryagh the aca 10 the lifeboat. position ih her own oil slick GOOD NEWS—Capt. George Fried of the President Roose- WHEN al 1 of then were I ~ and a lifeboat under Chief « yelt at home with his wife after ship rescued the Antince crew. “{né boat, the line parted. Ans

- Officer Miller was lowered. Tlie ‘sea capsized the boat and threw the mien into the icy waters. All but two of .the. men, covered with fuel oil, managed to reach lifelines dangling over the -liner’s -side and were pulled to ‘safety. Seamen- Witanen and Heitman were lost.” Now the rescue ship turned to saving her own, Searchlights swept the sea in the early winter darkness. The gile and snow increased and the men never ~ were sighted. Another ,.a.hed the freighter the - terrible night went by. line was cut on the metal rail-

. EJ ” - . d the boat lost. ON THE 26th more and more ing. an a: a =

ail ‘was pumped onto the sea. A Lyle gun, which shoots a SIXTEEN times the gun was the

other was rigged and the rest removed, the captain again leay- . ing last. : The job was only half done. With its 32 rescued, the lifeboat was ngarly swamped as it . headéd back for the America in a gale whipping rain and

At midnight the weather = cleared and in bright moonlight another boat was floated to the Antinoe, The remaining 13, including Capt. Tose, last off his ship, were pulled to safety. Capt. Tose, so exhausted he had to be lifted aboard, insisted on : being carried to the bridge to SHOW. : thank Capt. Fried. His crew - - The hysterical seamen coul ‘was in pitiful condition. They not climb. the rope ladders to - “had had no food or water for the deck. They had been withtwo days. - out food and dry clothes for At Plymouth, where they put days. A breeches. buoy was the survivors ashore on Jan. 31; Tigged and the men swung the master and crew of the aboard. = : : President Roosevelt received Capt. Fried turned the Amer-. “the special welcome “that the Ica for New York, where he English reserve for the mer- Tecelved a ticker-tape reception chant navy. At her next ports rivaling that given Charles A.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Capt, “Henrik Kurt Carlsen's ‘heroic duel with the sea recalls other epic struggles in which man has matched wits with the. briny deep. One of the most famous of all maritime res---cners was Capt. George Fried. Staff writer William H. Rudy tells about him “in today’s fourth sof a series jof sex Sagas. %

projectile carrying a line, was - fired. On most occasions used. to -reach the Antinoe: A line broke near the projectile of call, Bremen and then Lindbergh. bbat was floajed on the line to that pulled it. The President Southampton, ‘on her return In the two dramatic rescues,

Capt. Fried and his men had saved 57 lives at the cost of two of their own geamen.

voyage, the liner was toasted. “A special medal was struck off and presented on behalf of

Roosevelt. was running out of small line when a Col. Hearn, an artillery officer who was a

the —e-t-r-i-e-k-e-n—freighter. It - reached her, then was sinashed. Efforts to float a cask to the

Antinoe, carrying a line, failed. passenger, suggested that a King George V. THE SKIPPER Bad. one last Another long winter night set spring be attached between La gesture to make against the in. : . projectile . and rope so that THREE years latér, Capt.’ North Atlantic. In 1932 he Oh the 27th, the fourth day some of the strain would be Fried cheated the sea again. picked up a filer Torced down off of rescue effort, Capt. Fried at- absorbed. It worked and for This time he was master of the [.iand in a trans-Atlantic ate tempted to ‘maneuver his big the third time contact was ‘old America and the vessel (,mpt This one was easy for a

_made between the two ships. By now the gaie had begun to ‘motlerate. The snow stopped but heavy seas still were run-

that needed “his help was the Italian tramp Florida, her bridge smashed’ and breaking ‘up off the Virginia Capes,

man who had seen the ocean at its worst: erie EA . In 1934 President Franklin , Roosevelt named Capt. Fried

vessel close to the Antinoe’s stern so that a line could be: thrown to the freighter from the liner's after king posts, the

stanchions - that support the ' ning. Another boat was floated Four ships were nearer the ,..4 of the Steamboat Inspecs cargo booms, It-was impossible. tothe Antinoe and at 7:20 p. m., Florida than was the America (,n Service. He ToT i The Lyle gun was tried 12 of the 25 men aboard the when the 80S was received but keep an eye on the sea until ’

only the America, using the comparatively new radio compass, was able to find her.

freighter were pulled to the liner. The boat was smashed and had to be cut adrift.

again, Once a line was secured aboard :the Antinoe ‘and another lifeboat pulled to her. As . 3 = i,

1946, when he retired.

(Last of a Series)

c i y : 2 : lito’ 1 rap 2? JWO -- It would provide Stalin with an outlet to the warm waters of the Mediters: ranean, enabling him to receive Strategic supplies and materials from Asia and the Middle Eas 12 months in the year. ’ THREE — It would provide Stalin with a point of liaison with secret Communist couriers from the free world pl fo geographic situation is the all- = him the role that sautrss Berra. |

important question” of ‘the role ' gal played for Hitler in Yugoslavia will play in any ga World

new European war. yn» Bt Three courses are open. to WHO is Tito? He is Josef Tito: He could fight“isn the Broz, an old-line Communist

tors” that underlay Stalin's “secession” plan? Geographically, Yugoslavia holds the key to the defense of Stalin's Eastern European satellites, Against her borders are Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria --~ whose peoples might ‘welcome a liberating army. Yugoslavia shields Europe's soft under-belly. Bound ‘up with this unique

mediate if war baging, or when war begins , . . That war will inevitably begin and that they over there. (Germany, England and France) are bound to come to ‘blows, there can be no doubt...” : : When the present “territorial autonomy’ for Yugoslavia was created in June, 1948, with an announcement by. the Cominform of the 8talin-Tito split, the non - Communist world whooped for joy. Nobody called “attention to the fact that “‘ter.ritorial autonomy” had been planned as early as 1925.

The Chinese revolution, Stalin explained, varied from the normal ‘because of the predominance of military questions. The Chinese Red army was destined ‘to-win the revolution, assist in ‘the spread of communism elswhere and defend” the . Soviet Union, : » a ” . YUGOSLAVIA, Stalin pointed out, required special consideration because of two factors: ONE-—Like the Soviet Union, it had to deal with the problem of national entities within its borders, and, more important-

IV io. Instead, we jumped happily to - sidé of the Allies or on the. agent and ’ : n : > ] ] rofessional lu= TWO—It enjoyed a ‘“special the. conclusion that here was a side of Stalin. Or he could re- ry, ly Hand-picxed by Stalin » position in regard to interna- falling out of thieves and & por- main’ “neutral.” Tiio went into Yugoslavia In

If” Tito takes sides either way, an Allied attack could be launched against Stalin through Yugoslavian territory, .But if he remains neutral no Allied soldier, under the rules of neutrality, could touch Yugoslavia. A neutral Yugoslavia would sea! off the under-belly of Eu,rope more effectively than 100

tional relations.” “We must . .., bear in mind’ the circumstance that Yugoslavia Is not a fully independent country-:.. and that... she cannot escape the great play of forces that is at work Ojside Yugoslavia,” Stalin rote. :

“If you are drawing up a na-

tent of the crumbling of the entire Communist structure. We wasted little time clasping thebutcher. Tito in almost. loving embrace, accepting his word that he ‘was Stalin's enemy.

World War II with the mission of grabbing control of the res sistance forces of the heroic Col. Draja Mikhailovitch, Follfwing the classic pattern, Titotried to form a coalition or united .front with Mikhailo~ vitch, . who wouldn't buy it. England, and then the United States, sided with Tito. Mik«

» " " 3 CURIOUSLY, we paid scant attention tos what Yugoslavia was. doing in the United Na-

tional program for the Yugo-" tions. We scarcely, noticed that ‘Red divisions could do it. “ ' slav party-~and this is precisely . the Yugoslavian delegation Up to now, Tito, has given ~hallovitch was thrown to the what we are dealing with—vou never once stood against the Ihsolutely no assurance that wolves, must remember that this pro- Soviet bloc - when the chips. he would abandon neutrality. With the collapse of the

Nazis, Tito set up a typical puppet. government, staffed at all levels + by reliable © Moscowtrained Communists. But came’ the Stalin-Tito split and -the whole crowd of them went along with Tito—or so we are asked to believe. Let's face it. Communists just don't behave that way, , When ' Earl Browder was exs “ pelled from the American Come munist Party on. orders from Moscow, his supposedly loyal pals turned on him like so ‘many cobras. 0

We have only his vague, Aeso- : pian mumbo-jumbo about standing “on the side of peace.”

® ” n WHAT would be the character of Yugoslavian ‘“neutrality?” Would it be genuine neutrality? -Again, Stalin provides the clue: | : “When a life-and-death struggle is being waged . . . between proletarian Russia and the imperialist . entente, . only two alternatives confront the + border.regions. Either they join forces with Russia .. . or the : ® 8»

Join fortes with the enteite. . : 2 ¢ IF TITO really -is so |

| Ago third solution. So-called indephpdence , , . is ous to the Communist caus only -an illusion. we 42 ~ the open -party press Thus, an Hlusionary “neutral- have us believe, why ity" in Yugoslavia would mask Stalin ordered his a ina complete alliance with the So- tion? Is it possible that ne viet Union. The practical advan- Stalinist infiltrator ean tages, from Stalin’s standpoint, Within pistol range? « are at once apparent, ~~ Moreover, Tito. , ONE—A neutral Yugloslavia Stan

were really .dewn. me Indeed, this reporier has not been able to discover through the press division of the American delegation that a tabulation of Yugoslavia's voting record even exists. 7 Although Stalin actually planned a Yugoslavian 'seces- .- sion” and it happened squarely . * according to his timetable; it is possible, of course, that his.

gram must be based on what is developing: and. what will inevitably occur by virtue of international-relations. That is why I think that the question of . , . self-determination should be regarded as .an immediate; and burning question. - “Now about the' national pro-' gram (of the Yugoslav Communist party). As the "starting point . .. we must postulate a Sowiet revolution in Yugoslavia feud with Tito is genuine. It is imperative to include in .. Any doubt of its authenticity the national program a special would be erased if Stalin were point on . . . secession. to invade Yugoslavia, or if Tito “Finally, the- program should were to enter fully. .into the include a special point providing Western alliance and welcome for national ‘territorial auton: Gen. Eisenhower's troops -to omy ... in Yugosiavia i..." Yugoslavian soik=which Tito Stalin wrote that the -gues-. has given mo sign that he even ! . tion of autonomy ould have - contemplates doing. to be resolyeq duringsor follow-. Gerluine or not, the fact Is ing World War II-the. coming - that the split is useful to Stalof which he clearly foresaw. =~ ° in-and has in no way weakened “Even 4f-we admit that at.the - him in.the international picture. moment this question. is not an One need only to look at the