Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1952 — Page 14
DEFENSE— ce Sen, Taft— u Europe's Bogey Man By R. H. SHAC KFORD, LOND.ON, Feb. 20— American. officials are telling their European Allies
who are reluctant to pro-
ceed full speed ahead with German rearmament that “the bogey man will git you if you don't watch S08 out.” a Their bogey
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. : man is Sen, Robert: A, Loophole : Taft, Repub . Wi lican presiTHERE are laws which provide stiff penaltied for anyone dential : ie ‘ thi i { rant, tar who, within two years after leaving government service, An Of the prosecutes a claim against the government. present Z. : 8. Joint efs The Treasury, however, contends those statutes do not or Staff, who usually apply to former employees of the Internal Revenue are responsi-
ble -for pres=-
Bureau who go into private practice and handle tax cases ent European
Mr. Acheson
before the bureau. Because, don't you see, says the Treas- peadlong strategy, and ury, most tax cases are not claims-against the government major denouncer of the present U. 8,
but are claims by the government against a taxpayer? That is something which to some lawyers may be a distinction, but to most laymen makes no difference— especially when it involves something like the tax case of ‘former Revenue Commissioner Nunan's client, the Indianapolis Brewing Co. This company started with a tax assessment of some $812,000, settled it with a tax payment of $4500, and then collected $35,000 from the government for over-assessment. Somewhere along the line that seemed to become a claim “against” the government. » ~ . » » . THE TREASURY granted special permission to Lawyer Nunan to handle that and eight other tax cases after he signed affidavits that he had no persopal knowledge of the cases while he was employed in the bureau. Mr. Nunan's law partner, John J, Wenchel, for 10 years general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, signed similar affidavits and was granted permission to represent more than 80 tax clients. Those affidavits were sworn to and notarized, so anyone wishing to place the best possible interpretation can only assume that when Mr. Nunan was revenue commissioner, and Mr. Wenchel was the bureau's chief counsel, they were not giving close attention to their duties. Maybe Congress should pass another law—although, to us, the present law seems plain enough. Anyway, the Treasury would be well advised to make a rule that no one, sfter leaving the Revenue Bureau, can handle any tax case Ahat was pending while he worked for the bureau. Period.
Good Old Uncle Sugar
AGEN. JAMES A. VAN FLEET believes America's Asiatic £7 Allies should “build and use” their own armies, because ‘the United States “cannot do all the fighting everywhere in %he world for our friends.” 3 If the General can sell this idea to President Truman and the State Department it will be a very great service ito his country. But Gen. Var*Fleet is in Korea, and that As a long, long way from the places where important deci‘sions are made. 2 At the beginning of the Korean War, when most of our associates in the United Nations were slow in joining us in the fighting, Chiang Kai-shek offered to put 33,000 troops ‘at our disposal. The idea was vetoed by the State Department. Even the subsequent intervention of Red China
brought no change in that attitude. ! y 8.» PP mean Sen. Taft in the White : House.
YET THE Chinese Nationalists have an army equipping yo» “and training these troops since the outset of the Korean War, “that might be very useful now. Belatedly, we are doing something in that direction. But we got off to a slow start and it has been a very half-hearted effort. Meanwhile, also after months were wasted, Gen. Van Fleet is being allowed to build up a native army in South Korea, but he is handicapped by lack of equipment and various prioritjes, Plans to rearm the Japanese are just in
foreign policy. Sen. Taft is about the only alternative U. 8. State Secretary Dean’ Acheson is able to raise here to the French and Germans—and even the Brit-ish-—if they allow the collapse of present strategic plans to build up an army for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. That plan calls’ for a European army of 43 divisions by 1954, including 12 German divisions. A major obstacle is French unwillingness to include the Germans on terms acceptable to-the Germans, who recognize their bargaining strength and are flexing their muscles less than seven years after defeat, Mr, Acheson’s trouble is that his government has no readymade alternative if the worst happens. The worst would be failure even to work out some kind of face.saving compromiise between the French andGermans—something which might stand erect at least through the coming weeks, while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting in Lisbon and the U. 8. Congress is considering foreign aid. But even Mr. Acheson is worried that Congress will listen more to squabbles in the French and German Parliaments than to diplomats who are trying to claim the situation is imeun but not critical. ~ ” THE OUTLOOK {s that Mr. Acheson, British Foreign Minister. Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman will work out some kind "of paper agreements to prevent Lisbon from being a colossal flop. But there is little prospect that Mr. Acheson will be able to return to Washington with the kind of tangible results ex-
Congress will demand. Mr. Acheson i§ straining to the utmost to pull the present crisis out of the fire. But the dilemma is at home. He can’t threaten that the Truman administration would drastically revise its palicy toward Europe —not this year. So he has to rely on the effect of a threat . that Furopean failure may » n -
no specific alternate formula to the present plan, there are several: ONE —Rearm Germany alone and without French consent. Even Americans shy away from this and what it would mean to the entire Wast-
Mr. Schuman himself has warned the French Parliament of its possibilities and in that case, “Germany will then be asked to take the place now held by France.” TWO—Revert to “peripheral strategy” - for Europe. This would call for planning to hold only a couple of bridgeheads in France—American “Dunkirks” —for evacuating Americans in case of trouble and for liberation. of what might be left « Years later. THREE — Allow the entire
It we Americans “cannot do all the fighting everywhere,” we are doing the next thing to that at the moment. The United States has supplied the bulk of the foreign troops in Korea, and the six divisions we have stationed in Germany represent the largest single contribution to the defense of Western Europe, with Britain next. ~ France, Western Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Portugal have a combined population of 170 million. Japan, the Philippines, Australasia and Formosa have a combined population of - 142.6 million. Yet the United States, with a population of - gor some months and proceed 150 million, is undertaking to defend both of these areas with building up national against Russia (population 200 million and Red China 460 forces In all countries except million), not to count the satellites, British sentiment seems in- ; How can this make any sense to anyone?
clined to follow the latter of Milking the Cow
these, if necessary, rather than rushing headlong as Mr. Acheson seems determined, into what might be an artificial “paper agreement” now. (GOVERNMENT gets its money mainly from two places: : : Out of the earnings of people, or by borrowing. Ultimately, the borrowed money has to be paid back, SIDE GLANCES at a premium. And it is paid "Pack by taxing earnings. In the 1952 budget recently presented to Congress by President Truman, an estimated 39 per cent of the r revenue will come from taxes on corporations. Corporations do not go on doing business unless they shave earnings. Earnings go to make gmployment, to ‘maintain and expand plants, to buy materials and supplies, to provide profits for investors and—to pay taxes. Unless the earnings can do all of these things, the orporation disappears. fo . 8 » ’ s wn.» # RECENT reports of net income after taxes by the nation’s corporations show & consistent, and substantial, decline. In some cases, the net income is slightly higher, LF ma, cases it is much lower. Main reason: Taxes, ; ore.than half of every profit dollar now is taken . away More corporations by taxes. This inevitably affects both corporation growth and dividends. . Somewhere there is a point at which earnings can be knocked down by taxation to the point where they are
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MR: EDITOR:
As a newcomer to Indianapolis I find myself puzzled by how little news I am able to find in the local newspapers regarding the activities
of the United Nations. ’
On a few occasions, when I have inquired, I have been told that the papers do not feel that the people of Indiana are interested in the United Nations, Perhaps this is true, and yet,
since over $30 million of our money is being spent in support of this organization, it. seems to me that it “would be encouraging to heat some of the constructive things which are being “done. For instance, T-should have been very interested, when the flu-epidemic was raging in Britain, to know that the World Health Organization had analyzed the viruses causing the epidemic, and had made preparations in- this country to immediately detect {its presence should it be brought to these shores, and that we were ready with the serums most effective 1 believe anyone who recalls the flu epidemic of World War I would have
in combating it.
been interested.
Surely in view of the meat 3hortage, Hoosiers would be interested to know that, through United Nations efforts parasite and. disease resistant cattle called the Zebus, are now being crossed with our Edropean cattle to produce
healthier herds.
Why, even our flights to- Europe and other continents are safer because of the United Na1 Aviation Organization. In these days of gloomy news, we need to know some of the ‘constructive things being accomplished by the human -race.
tions International Ci
giving us a break?
—Jean Farley, 3518 N. Denny St.
‘Good Gosh, Mr. Rvark’
MR. EDITOR.
I have just finished reading the so-called column by Robert C. Ruark entitled “Ameri-
cana” of Feb. 18, 1952.
NONO!
(T'S GOT A
HOOSIER FORUM—‘UN News’
"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say its"
By Talburt
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Tessnnsnensrssnennsins
‘War of Containment’
MR. EDITOR:
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the fighting.
laugh?
How about
“
I notice that a Forum wrifer with the initials comments on the losses in fighting a containment war, losses would be if we fought an “all out war” as Taft and MacArthur indicate? loss of life in Korea can be attributed to MacArthur's misjudgment of last November when he said the Reds in China would not come into
What does he consider the
The great
Taft is willing to set the whole world on fire and destroy civilization while President Truman is trying to contain the fighting and eventually give peace to all of us. all out war but his voting record indicates he is against preparedness,
Too many of your people have been reading the Communist inspired newspapers country. I regret to say that The Times has fallen into the same category as the Star and the News in reporting incorrect news. Roscoe Drummond, chief Washington correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, says that in the months to come, the nation's political leaders are going to convey to us many one-sided, distorted, partisan half truths in order to win votes. He further states that today a large number of self-proclaimed experts on military strategy tell us how to fight the Korean War instead of leaving this to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ‘Taft proclaims that all the members of the Joint Chiefs are wrong and only Taft knows the answer, Isn't that worth a
Taft wants an
in this
I proclaim confidence in the Joint Chiefs and in our President who the people elected in 1948,
It seems the Republicans or a large number
of them want to throw us into a world-wide war instead of following the plans of the United
Nations to try and settle the conflicts in different parts of the world by peaceful means,
» Peace is near for us in Korea . . much better it has been to contain the fighting rather than to fight an all-scale war.
. and how
—Evelyn Walton, 2049 Meridian St.
This so-called column proceeds recklessly
to tear Whitaker Chambers apart (and Oh, gosh, weren't you good Mr. Robert £. Ruark . + « gee whiz, kid, you all shore done a thing or . . « I'll tell you for sure though, I won't call you “Bob” Ruark, That is to say, in the
two),
last paragraph.
I think it is very. much past the time now for editors of newspapers to scan tHe perfectly ridiculous columns that come into their A few of them written
readers by U. 8S. mail
by ignorant stumble bums; could almost put a
man in jail, even an editor.
It is my understanding that Alger Hiss was put in jail by evidence submitted, thig would take a lot of reading to go all over this testiAnd where. could I get some one to boil it all down for me, and give it to me in simple language that even me could understand. You, Mr. Ruark. But Mr. Ruark, you know I know
mony.
better than that.
After reading the article of this date, the
Views on the News
QUITTING the administration and getting elected to Congress is ‘the best way to keep from being investigated.
SINCE the merger, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines have learned to fight each other with better camouflage.
SIGN on a drugstore—we employ two phar-
_ macists,
swastika.
18th, I am interested in where you live and
what you make per year, etc.? Well, good gosh, Mr. Ruark, you can easily see that either I am
a Communist or you are.
HIJALMAR SCHACHT, Hitler's financial wiz- * ard who was freed on the grounds that a banker wasn’t a war criminal, is now showing King Farouk how to use the crescent for a
ECHO FROM the West German cheering section—‘‘Ya Saar.”
HEADLINE delay.” What have we been having at Panmun-
“Commies threaten indefinite
jom, a Russian speed-up?
~—Harry Orchard, Bloomington.
By Galbraith
SLEW OF EM .
Ship Deals Would Make a Lawyer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20— The way I figure Jt with the
aid of adding machine, the -
masterminds in charge of making money by losing, it on ocean-going ofl tankers set up corporations all the way around the world.
For a while they and associ-
.. ates Seemed to have more busi-
nesses, including two in darkest Africa, a few more in Panama. and a couple in Hong
Kong, than they did dollars.
Eventually they did all right; came up with a profit of $3.250,000 on a brief investment of $101,000.
This whole day I have been
. ‘listening to experts expand on
the relationships of the 19 different corporations involved in the high finance of the Ameri. can rseas Tanker Corp, There”were so many deals be-
tween these impressively named
corporations as to make even a lawyer dizzy in the head. The names of the big busi-
nessmen were impressive, too.
Leading stockholders included Joe Casey, the ex: from -Massachusetts;
sey, the retired admiral and
‘hero of the South Pacific; Edward R. Siete: 2» late
gle; |
=D. K.
. By Frederick C.
‘they merely bought eight tank-
ers cheap from their Uncle
Sam and sold them high to a mysterious Greek and an equally mysteriohs group: of Chinese.
SOME OF the Senators investigating this seagoing saga of men who nevér even saw
the ships they owned, figure,
the incorporators fractured the law by selling the vessels without - governmental permission
to foreigners The Justice De- . -partment is investigating.
As it turns out, Newbold Morris, the distinguished lawyer who is investi the Justice Department’s recent tax shenanigans, is president of China International Foun-
DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan oH 1Cdnoy oo ,
McKinney Tells Demos To Get Out the Vote
20 — Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis, blames fails ure to get out the vote in his home state of Indiana for the defeat of President Truman there in 1948.
WASHINGTON, Feb.
Democrats can carry Indiana this year if they work hard enough, the national chairman contends. # Gov, Thomas E. Dewey | carried the state for the Republicans against F. D. R. in 1944 and Wendell L. Willkie did the same thing in 1940. i So it was not Re unexpected Mr. McKinney that Dewey ,..a drive beat Harry S. Truman. Writing in his weekly column in “The Democrat,” new publication of the national committee that goes to party workers everywhere, Mr. McKinney selects Indiana, Connecticut, Michigan and New York for _special treatment, He presents a chart showing that the Dewey plurality in Indiana in 1948 was only 13,000 and that 900,000 eligible voters stayed away from the polls. In Connecticut the New York governor won by 15.000 with 490,000 non-voters, Michi gan won by 36,000 with 1.870,000 non-voters and New York won with 61,000 while there were 3,780,000 non-voters. Another McKinney chart shows the near loss by Presi. dént Truman of California, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. And all this adds up to the failure to get out the vote in each of these * states Mr. McKinney maintained. ‘
n ” ” IN CALIFORNIA the President won by 18,000, but there were 2.789.000 non-voters. Ohio was carried by 7000 with 2,260,000 not voting, Illinois by 34.000 with 1.940.000 non-voters and Iowa by 28,000 with 680,000, staying away from the polls. “These charts should be studied carefully by every Democratic leader and work-
TRAGEDY . .. By Ludwell Denny Germany Is Needed To Face Soviet Threat
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The tragedy of the German-French tangle over a European army is that there is no other safe defense of Western Europe
against Soviet aggression.
The problem is clear enough. But the solution is infinitely
difficult. The cure could kill the patient. : . Of course, the trouble is
Germany. She can dominate the continent. This is because of her superiority in most, if not all, of the power factors. These include: Her favored geographic location, her natural resources, her industrial development, her scientific capabilities, her large and disciplined population and her people’s skill and perseverance in both peace and war. = = -
THAT is an old .story—
known only too well to her .
neighbors who have suffered two German conquests in a generation. But for the Allies the German problem is even more difficult in some ways now than before World War II, despite the complete military defeat of the Nazi empire.
Among the many elements -
which shift the potential bhalance against the Allies, and in favor of Germany, the following are important; : ONE-—Germany can play the Allies and Russia against each other, make a deal with
the highest bidder, then start .
the same game over again. Germany’s loyalty is neither to the East nor to the West, but to herself alone. . TWO—The chief Allied nation on the continent is no
longer a dominating power—
France is only a shadow of her old Self’ Her. sickness may not be fatal, but it is very serious. Her democratic parties are in decline, and she is torn between. the Communist left and the Gaullist right. In an emergency, even with - the American aid, she would be
Othman .
dation, Inc., which now controls a whole slew of tankerowning corporations. he’s . being investigated, himself. I'll keep my personal headache to myself and not even attempt to lead you through the devious operations of the corporations so carefully traced by William A. Leece, the senatorial bookkeeper, But there were a few real startlers, such as the time Mr. Leece told about the hurry-up sale by the Maritime Commission of three of the ships. “Do you mean to say that the Maritime Commission ap-
proved an application that it .
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the non-voter who all too.fre« quently decides the outcome on
election day.” tower, 640 The total Republican margin network p of victory in the four states nati-—quite listed for Dewey was 125,000 stand at th and the non-voters over 7 mil« This tow
lion. A big vote in these states would have meant 87 more EK - electoral votes for Truman, Mr, - McKinney maintained. » LJ
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” “EVERY BIT of tangible evidence shows that the none voters are favorable to the
Democratic Party” he as sterted. the studic Getting the non-voters to the studio; polls and seeing that they vote rn one. but pls
as live pre added to th _cinating tc pulling bac movable =
the Democrat ticket by “showe ing them that our party's pros gram is the best for the couns try” will guarantee another victory this fall, Mr, McKinney
stated. table any “Remember this,” he cone sets could F While the
luded, “elections are decided by those who register and vote and not by those who give
ferent news five feet of
their political views to club car might as w audiences and public opinion separated : pollsters but don’t get around Aside fr
to the polling booth on elec several ofl
tion day. . -~ and a tra “The states shown in the of the last two charts were not picked out powers of to point the finger at any was little a group of Democrats-— they tion is one
erful in the by reason o
were chosen merely because they show so dramatically the
organization job that we Demo- it promises crats must do to insure vice WTTV fee ‘tory next November.” the world o 8 nw = Talking A REGISTRATION drive Red Lattin will do-it, Mr. McKinney dis- that the sts closed. : : with the w His reference to not pointing ment went the finger of scorn at any of that altho the states mentioned applies kinks to b with: particular pertinence to fore next v Indiana. His sponsor, Frank : : M. McHale was then as now A workl the Democratic National Com= reached ec mitteeman, and basket In the 1
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Rememt - Friend Ir Andy.” Wi why. The a five doll an dit alo esting one lucky to defend herself, much The Times less her neighbors. Address. THREE — German develop- of Indianapol ment cannot be held back to ] the French level, because West RUMOR Europe is so interdependent land’s popu that German recovery is essen-- Palace The: tial to her neighbors’ health. be the next That is the hard lesson of this ments. at post-war period—as it was afte Probably w er World War I. Since bas Since history has shown that with such’ | Western Europe cannot live x k with a strong Germany and A
cannot live without one, the only solution is federation in a larger unit for mutual benefit. The Schuman Plan, a coal
would com wave and r local TY st Most peo deal about will he eag --and thos:
for that. The European army —in which Germany, France,
Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg would merge de- nate fense under the larger Atlantio worth, the t alliance—would be the military ‘take to tel base, Pérsonall £.4 = : ward to s
BUT THE European army
: Garland’s s plan is now endangered be-
to see a lo
cause Germany's price is too stage and high and because France is come to u - willing to pay too little. tennas. There are only two alternae tives and either would be dis LOTS of astrous. “One would allow Ger= listening to many to rebuild her separate Chamber. * military might and menace. Council's r The other ‘alternative is to dent Squad trust France to carry the main’ telephone 2 burden of continental defense, safety boc an extreme form of wishful hausted th thinking -which would. invite The ‘Cour Russian attack soon and prob- starting Aj ably German aggression later, Under these dire conditions « LISTEN] Allied statesmen cannot accept broadcast « defeat of plans for European WIRE, 7 p federation and a European song for th army. Though the German- The tal conductor
French deadlock postpones this solution, the American and British governments, in self.
called on q te turn ou
i must go on’ working NY res r : chett for 13 that a ne Friends.” v In the pl . ten years 2 man Clare Dizzy « for it. EVEN r over three tankers to a cOorpos - from the - ration that hadn’t yet been ore delinquenci ganized? i Five fire Loanat is right” said Mr, } « to ‘Hollywt leece: . during-a “ So FIVE anips eventually : - wi 3 went to one Stavros of iy Greek shipping magnate, The youl through the Delaware Tanker in an area Corp., a firm that looked like . smoking is it was American-owned, but in a false 8 wasn’t, Neither did it own the boats. These turned up under : the flag of the World Tanker TV Tips Corp., established by this same KATE S Greek In far-off Liberia. Smith pre The other five ships went to Hollywood the United Tanker Corp., which Crawford, . also ed to be an American ; 10, 7 I outfit, but wasn’t. Its ultimate - * GODFRI ownership went all the way ' Godfrey pr back, apparently, tothe Chi- gram built nese Nationalist government mor and of Chiang Kai-shek. CH. 6,7 . One of the proprietors of THE W United ‘Tanker turned out to mountain be United Securities’ Corp., a strange which a trio of Chinese also Dogs” established in Liberia. Why MOXIN¢ this African Republica is so ing bout attractive, to - corporations is.” ne ny B something else the Senators Vie Carde
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