Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1952 — Page 22

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ARMED FORCES . . . By Jim G. lucas =.

Pentagon Screams ‘Foul’ At Lawmaker’s ‘Chamber

ROY W, HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ President Editor Business Manager

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Just an Army on Paper. a

THE AGREEMENT worked out by the Foreign Ministers at London and presented to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at Lisbon as a compromise formula to bring West Germany into the European army, leaves unanswered one all-important question: re When? ! ; Troops are needed to defend Western Europe against an attack which may come any day and without warning. > To meet this urgent need, an army of 43 divisions was to have been created this year, and expanded to 96 divisions by the end of 1954. Germany was to have supplied 12 of the initial divisions. Plans were to begin German recruiting this spring. Now this is to be delayed until a treaty has been drafted and ratified by all countries concerned. . This may hold up the German contribution to the program until next year, or the year after next. There seems little prospect of any action this year. : : Agreement to postpone formation of the German divisions was made by State Secretary Acheson and British "Foreign Secretary Eden to satisfy French Foreign Minister Schuman. The latter sought to placate the French Socialists,

‘who are opposed to German rearmament on any basis.

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OTHER CONDITIONS attached to eventual German _rearmament at French insistence have been accepted by “German Chancellor Adenauer, but are certain to be opposed “by powerful political elements in Germany. Thus the present ‘compromise isn't likely to satisfy anybody or to result in ‘any actual gain. : Counting the Germans out for the time being, as we must, the rest of the projected army of 1.4 million men calls for 14 French divisions, 12 Italian divisions and five from the Benelux countries. But in return for the concessions made to France is there any guarantee that these French troops will be forthcoming ? None at all. On the contrary, both France and Italy protest that too much is expected of them, and—according to word from Lishon—what either of these countries eventually agrees to do will depend almost entirely on how much money it gets from the U. S. This kind of backing and filling has been going on for two years.” No one is being misled by the diplomatic doubletalk to which each succeeding conference resorts to conceal its lack of accomplishment. This was demonstrated Wednesday when the House of Representatives demanded by a vote of 189 to 143 that President Truman supply full information on any commitments made to Prime Minister Churchill in their January talks. This was nothing less than a vote of no confidence in American foreign policy and probably shows what can be axpected when the next foreign aid appropriations come before Congress.

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"<A RMED SERVICES COMMITTEES in both Houses of Congress, have now approved Universal Military Training bills. : The vast majority of Americans, we are convinced, applaud this step. For five years there has been little-or no doubt that the nation recognized the need for a universal military program. Unfortunately, a wilful band of obstructionists has blocked every effort to express that conviction in law. Recent events have shown all too clearly the need for a workable universal military training plan. The boys who went to Korea and died without the training a man deserves to protect his own life are mute testimony. - o ” ® . . ] THERE ARE differences in the Senate and House bills. But they can be worked out. The House bill—a modification of the National Security Commission's report—provides six months of basic training. After that, young men go into the reserves for seven and a half years. They cannot be called to duty without the express approval of Congress. - , The Senate bill provides for a gradual reduction of "regular Armed Forces, eliminatiig one regular soldier for every threé untrained added to the reserves. - Universal military training is one answer—and a big one—to our military needs. Not only will it save money and manpower, but also it will benefit our young men. If there is a war, these young men will be called, ready or not. The country owes: the proper training before that happens. And a strong, trained reserve is our best insurance against a war.

The 49th State?

NEXT WEDNESDAY the Senate will vote on statehood for Alaska. ; . Opposition to the Statehood Bill is strong and unexpectedly bitter. Shockingly false aspersionsyhave been cast upon the good Americans who live in our great northern territory. ° : he They have been called unfit to govern themselves, when their education-level is well above that of the state whose Senator is leading the attack upon them—and even above the national average. . a Much is made of the fact that Alaska does not physically adjoin the U. 8. proper, although it is far easier to

go from Washington to New York or Pittsburgh 100 years 330, sr ® ee as » tion,” but it grew faster during the Iasi decade than any state in the union, and is still growing.

show, has little real basis. It is an appeal to the isolationist, kind of appea ericans don't believe in &

Senate will consider the facts

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travel from Washington to Ajaska today than it was to .

fe" ALASKA IS condemned for having a “small popula-

The fight against Alaska statehood, gs thesearguments to the standpatter; it’s the age-old argument against expan- | appeal has always failed in America.

WASHINGTON, Féb. 22—The Pentagon is yelling “foul.” * - . All the Armed Forces claim they're being slandered, by Congress and the newspapers. The House Armed Services Committee on procurement, headed by Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D. La.), has them fighting mad. Mr. Hebert wants to prove the Armed Forces are wasteful, * extravagant or just plain stupid about monéy, His “chamber of horrors” exhibit to demonstrate his point is resented as. gross libel, Time was when soldiers wouldn't consider talking back to a Congressman. Whatever he sald, the proper answer was, “Yes, Sir.” Or “We'll try to do better, Sir.” But when Sens. Richard Russell (D. Ga.) and Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) suggested the Pentagon quit turning the other cheek, it needed no further urging.

odd MOST OF the speeches turned out recently

by ‘Defense Department ghost writers have hit back—hard—at Mr. Hebert and his committee.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Time Decides Greatness

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—It was nearly 50 years after the death of Abraham Lincoln before his home town of Springfield, Ill. began fully to realize and celebrate his greatness.

Now all Republicans, most Democrats and

the states .of Kentucky, where he was born,

Indiana, where he grew into manhood, and Illinois, where he enfered law and politics, all pay high tribute te the _ Great, Emancipator. Congress practically adjourns tor a fortnight to celebrate Lincoln Day, Feb. 12. "They adjourn for one day after hearing George Washington's farewell adress’ on Feb, 22. It takes time to decide greatness, Usually the people Mr. Willki make the decision. Then the r. ] ie politicians pick it up for their «sno tribute. * own purposes. That may explain why no

‘Hoosier in either the House or Senate, and no

Republican in either body, ardse to pay tribute to the late Wendell L. Willkie on his ‘birthday. On Feb, 18, the Indianian who entered politics by being nominated by the Republicans to run against President Roogf¢velt in 1940 and went on to become a Ay gure, would have been 60. He was 52 when he died.

Sen. Paul Douglas (D, Ill.) paid tribute to Willkie's ‘‘greatness” in a Senate speech Feb. 10. Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) was busy drafting his latest assault on the Japanese Peace Treaty. His senior colleague, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R, Ind.) was still making Linco'n speeches back home in Indiana. In the Houge, Hoosier. Republicans had re-* turned and were active on the floor again. None of them said a word about the Willkie birthday.

Busy Answering Letter

THE VERY day that the Douglas tribute to his father appeared in the Congressional Record, a fellow Republican, Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis, was busy answering a constituent's letter and at the same time putting Philip Willkie over a barrel, An 11th District. businessman sent Mr. Brownson a letter enclosing an Indianapolis Times clipping of a United Press story from Rushville in which State Rep. Willkie placed some of the blame for the graft scandals in Washington on Congress. As counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee of which ‘Sen. Douglas was chairman, Mr. Willkie had learned {hat the failure of Congress to repeal arbitrary bureaucratic powers and. to pay enough to attract first-clags help to the Washington bureaus was a factor in corruption, That was what he said in the interview. While it is open season for congressmen to criticize everyone else in the government, they are seldom self-critical. Not only that, they object to almost any outside critics. Mr. Brownson thanked his correspondent for enclosing the clipping and then expressed his dislike for its contents. He said he would write Mr. Willkie for a full text and see if he (Mr. Willkie) had been correctly quoted. - The only trouble with Congress is the Democratic majority; Republicans ran it okay when they had it—just before the last presidential election -—-Mr. Brownson wrote. He didn’t say that the 80th Congress was attacked from the stump by President Truman, who won a Democratic Congress, as well as being elected in 1948.

‘A Personal Friend’

A HOOSIER, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, was the majority leader of the Republican 80th and, with some. merit, claims he has been the “leader of the majority” in the nominally Democratic 81st and 82d. The House is ruled by a GOP-Southern Conservative coalition. Mr. Halleck helps make the deals. “Mr. Philip Willkie is a personal friend of mine of whom I think highly,” Mr. Brownson wrote. “I agree to a degree with some of his conclusions In the article you sent me but, I fail to understand why you apparently approve wholesale recommendation that all bureaucratic salaries be raised unconditionally:

“Philip has never been averse to publicity, |

and I feel I must, in all kindness, remark that a little knowlege on the part of the heir to a famous name can sometimes be doubly dangerous.” . : This paragraph was as close as any Indiana Republican here came to paying tribute to their party's 1940 presidential: nominee,

They don't always mention names, but. there's no mistaking who 1s meant. The Pentagon admits it's no accident. ‘Deputy Defensé Secretary William C. Foster, in ‘a speech to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology club of New York, sald he had told the Hebert committee he came before it, “not to bury the Defense Department but to praise it.” In New York, he said, he was “in pretty much the same frame of mind.” > MR. FOSTER went further than most Pentagon defenders. “The truth,” he said flatly, “is that the Pentagon, in many respécts, is run as well or even better than many large companies, “I have on my desk,” he continued, “a list of recent .charges against the Pentagon which, upon investigation, have turned out to be distortions, half-truths and sometimes complete canards.” 1 Stories which rile hfm most, he said, include the one about the 10 million dozen oyster forks

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that Vice Adm. Charles W. Fox, chief of Navy

Materiel, is supposed to have bought.. Mr. Foster said the Navy bought only 10,000 dozen and that was 10 years ago, when Adm, Fox was at sea aboard the USS Enterprise. Yet today, ‘Mr. Foster satd, the Admiral's friends call him “Oyster Fork” Fox. > OS % : NEXT, he said, there's the story about the toenail clippers for dogs. as if people in the Pentagon “sit around manicuring glamorous canines.” Those clippers were used, Mr. Foster said, during World War II, when dogs saved many lives. The story that the Pentagon bought one million WAVE uniforms for 10,000 girls, he

said, “is an example of a complete canard.”

“If unfounded charges are circulated and believed, we must calculate the ultimate effect not only on the people at home, but also upon soldiers at the front,” he said. Aiso over the week-end, Army Secretary Frank Pace swung on Pentagon critics.

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UN FORCES . . . By Oland D. Russell

Japanese Army a Long Way Off

TOKYO, Feb. 22—The Japanese are still a long way from fielding an army, or any part of one, to take its place alongside United Nations

forces in Korea. To, the Japanese, the idea of any army of Asiatics to fight Asiatic communism is all right in theory, but they'd like to be dealt out as long as possible. In tfle first place, they don't yet see the United Nations as.a world peace enforcer. : They see the United Nations flag beside the American standard over Gen, Matthew Ridgway's headquarters here, but to them, the ‘Korean War is mostly an American struggle, brought on by our fumbling China

policy. Syngman Rhee The occupation here has Juno Japs been so overwhelmingly

American that the Japanese can't quite shake the idea that we ought to. be big enough to win without calling on poor, prostrate Japan to help. "

~ Mistrust Russia

IF IT'S a question of survival, yes, of course; the Japanese want in. But that is a point that has not been brought home sufficiently to them. They dislike and mistrust “Russia. think a showdown is still far enough away that we'll protect them while they concentrate “on rebuilding; that Korea is a side war of no immediate concern to them. = This is not to suggest the Japanese are.converted to pacifism. . It's just that they want to be certain of being on the winning side next time. When and if they fight communism, they -want.to go to war as a partner with other democracies.

But they

The Japanese are not by nature Sir Galahads. They are well aware that they are heartily hated by the Koreans, that President Syngman Rhee has said he wouldn't tolerate Japanese troops on his side. Japan is looking forward to becoming a United Nations member. But this is largely a matter of “face” and standing in the world community, rather than any ardent desire to cut in on the United Nations’ battles, especially when the United Nations itself is divided and ineffectual. = In any case, there has beeh a poor job done of selling the United Nations to Japan, except as a social fraternity of nations. y No responsible Japanese questions the need for his country’s rearmament. Indeed, the speedup in converting the national police reserve into an army is widely favored.

Reign of Terror

THE JAPANESE want no return of the imperial army with its uncontrollable political ambitions and constant reign of terror. They

want a reasonably strong democratic army, always under the people’s control and solely to help provide internal security while the nation is rebuilding. They don’t want it sent abroad unless it is to their own. vital interest. More than anything the Japanese want to

control - their own destiny, and they're gaining .

confidence that they can. Short of direct aggression against Japan— and Russia is not seen likely to start that soon —it would take a big educational campaign, as well as immense material support, to get Japanese troops fighting on our side in Asia. Several American officials here have been hammering generally at the theme but so far it has .made no dent in the Japanese. To be effective, the pressure must come officially from

2 ‘Washington. .

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith 3-YEAR-OLD LETTER . . . By James Daniel

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3 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — The Justice Department has belatedly discovered a 3-year-old agreement in which it gave the Agriculture Department blanket permission to “screen” criminal cases and quash those

doesn’t think should be prose-

cuted. : The discovery came after a Justice Department offic'al’denied the agreement existed. When the papers were found, they bore the initials of the same official and of his secretary. * . ” . -» . THE CLAIM that the Agricultural Department has authority to judge whether law violations by its business clients and employees should be prose= cuted has been made several times. x Newsmen recently asked Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan why there had not been more criminal prosecutions as a result of the epidemic of government-owned

; PIRI Fo, eto ul grain sortages. aa “+ In reply, he referred to “our life with these agreement with the Justice De-

starving!"

partment,” authorizing his de-

the Agriculture Department

..dated Mar. 25, 1949, and signed

"Senator last year under the .

Justice Department Has a Poor Memory

was defeated by Republican Homer E. Capehart, Washing-

partment not to act on cases it thought weak. The Justice Department was “then asked about Mr, Brannan's statement. The query went to Raymond P. Whearty, first assistant to Assistant Attorney General James M. Mc-

ton, Ind.)

Inerney, head ' of - Justice's fice and Mr. criminal division. Whear: a nM tives: o MR. ‘WHEARTY said- he cerning

doubted Secretary Brannan’s statement. Later, he reported he’d checked, and that nobody knew of any such agreement. Meantime, the same inquiry was put to W. Carroll Hunter, chief solicitor for the Agriculture Department, : # Mr. Hunter produced a letter

by Alexander M. Campbell, then assistant attorney general. The letter was initialed as having been typed by Mr, Whearty’s secretary at his direction -but to ‘be ‘signed by Mr. Campbell. _ + » : (Mr. Campbell, a Ft. Wayne lawyer, was the Democratic candidate for United States

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‘pers sponsorship of Frank _ one change in the list of.11. % Met ale, Democratic National under which ~ Committeeman for I He agriculture could decide not to

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The letter began: d “This will confirm the understanding at the conference held on this date between Mr. Frank E. Callinan of your of-

and other representathis department concontinuation of the * x policy set forth in a letter dated Web. 16, 1943 . . . regarding your reference to this department of potential violations arising under the various acts administered by the Department of Agriculture.”

MR. HUNTER ALSO produced the 1943 letter. It stated that because of the Justice Depaftment was understaffed and welcomed agricul-

The 1949 letter said there was no reason to. discontinue the arrangement in peacetime. This letter also warned “the - Agriculture. Department that . it would be responsible for any ‘cases withheld, and suggested

of Horrors’ ¢

“If these disclosures are played out of all perspective, they create the impression that

the Army is not interested in economy,” Mr, °

Pace, a former budget director, sald. “I am convinced the facts do not support this im. pression. Wa must not let current sensational charges obscure the essential soundness of the Army « . | ‘Assistant Defense Secretary Charles A, Coolidge, in Washington, aided his licks,

“THE RECORD to date is impressive,” he told the Military Order of the World Wars, “anq

' we should not lose sight of that fact when our

attention is diverted by the press. ., .” Mr. Hebert charges that a strategy dis. cussion among high-ranking Pentagon officers was held recently to determine how to take the play away from his committee. Mr, Hebert already has clashed with Adm. Fox, The ad. miral charged “We have virtually been charged, tried and convicted in the newspapers.” “I thank God for the American press, par. ticularly in this instance,” Mr. Hebert said.

Hoosier Forum

"I 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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‘True Statesman’ MR. EDITOR: : As a plain American, a writer incidentally, I'm not going to stand back like a putty-kneed pup and let misinformed people belittle that group of Indiana Republican Legislators who had the magnificent courage to stand up, take it on the chin, and behave like true statesmen, I was in the Indiana State Senate for five hours on Sept. 27 and saw enough greasy outs stretched hands, digging the U. 8. Treasury for every cent they could get, to turn my stomach for the next 50 years., Go ahead you “Fair Deal” letter writers and revel in all the so-called prosperity. “Brother, we just ain't never had it so good before.” But like a lot of other parents we have a son in Korean waters, he's a little past high school age and naturally he’s doing wonderfully well under Truman brilliant leadership. Yes, like a hole in the head. : The only thing that gives me faith in Amer. ica right now, after what I saw going on in the Indiana State Senate, is the fact that there are still Americans left who haven't forgotten to put their God and country first. Their personal and political ambitions take second place. If there is a turning point against socialism, or what have we, it started last October and for no other reason than that a small group of Americans behaved like Americans. Don’t run down those courageous legislators,

. Every time such letters appear, I work just that much harder, free of charge, to see that the .

legislators get the credit whi¢h they deserve. ; =M. K. S., City

‘Farming’s Tough’ MR. EDITOR: : I'd like to make a reply to Mrs. Disgusted of a few days ago. If she thinks the farmers have an easy time of it, why doesn’t she try farming? If her chickens and eggs go down in

. price and the price of feed goes up, I'm afraid

it won't do her much good to picket her chicken lot. She couldn’t do it anyway. You have. a little more to know than one operation and punch a time clock. You have to know how to combat different diseases, what

they are when you see them, the kind of rations.

for production, If the going gets tough, the farmer doesn’t strike. He keeps right on worksing away the old American way. ~—Dirt Farmer, City

Views on the News

IF GEN. MacARTHUR turns out to be the Republican dark horse, Democrats will claim he is mounted on a white one, oo

A FRESHMAN Republican Congressman from New York got a majority vote for his resolution asking the administration to cut the house, in on the government. The De mo cratic leadership opposed the move as too bold.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN wants to keep all of his war- Sk time powers — at least until ; after election. Gen. MacArthu

A NEW YORK Republic- * + + White horse? an won a Democratic congressional seat. Seventy per cent of the voters yawned instead of going to the polls,

DOLLAR DIPLOMACY—Yugoslay Commu nists decided to keep up the “class war” and help Tito get U. 8. funds to finance it. “ « -D, K.

COMPLICATIONS

WHENEVER I may have a form... to fill out or sendin . .. F study it real carefully. .. and then I will begin . .. I read the whys and wherefores and . . . the smaller words in print « » « until I think I understand ... . or have at

“least a hint . . . I then proceed to pencil in

+ »,+ the needed information ... and when I'm through I'read it with . .. the greatest of elation . . . for I believe that I have done . . . the job at hand just right . .. and perspiration on my brow ... says I tried with all my might «+ now 'I am just a layman who ... has a limited knowledge . . . and when it comes to filling forms .-. . it takes a man from college + « « and that is why I hate to get ... a tax form or a bill . . . for when I fill it out I need + + « an extra headache pill

—By Ben Burroughs,

send a criminal case to the Justice Department.

The suggested change was to ‘substitute the words “eco nomic and security consideras tions” for “war effort” in the portion authorizing agricul ture to consider the “effect upon the war effort where the offender is engaged in any ace tivity ‘or occupation deemed essential to such effort.” J

Raymond P.

turé was” told to continue withholding cases where the offense was minor, didn’t ine volve moral turpitude, was une a inadequately investigated, could be punished administra‘tively, was old, where the gove

ernment had been reinibursed, where there were extenuating

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circumstances, or where no de- °

terrent effect would be served by prosecution, ; Informed that” agriculture had produced the letters, “Mr. Whearty said three other Justice officials he had checked - had forgotten about the agreements, As for himself, he sald,

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