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“Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1952

‘Neutral’ Russia 2 :

OE ‘of the issues blocking an armistice agreement in Korea is the nomination of Russia as one of the three “neutral” nations to represent the Reds on the six-nation

armistice period. United Nations’ spokesmen objedt to the nomination. They contend that ‘Russia is not neutral. That, of course, is true. Russia is the main offender in this criminal aggression, with the Chinese Communists and the North Koreans operating as her stooges. But if the Soviets are willing to abandon their position as the behind-the-scenes partner in the war and move into the driver's seat, now that a settlement is in prospect, why should the United Nations object? The two other Communist nominees for the truce team "are Poland and Czechoslovakia. They are captive governments which will vote as Moscow dictates. Since Russia will be calling the signals anyhow, there might be some slight gain inh dealing directly with Moscow in this situation. OF COURSE, if the- United Nations makes this concession to the Reds as a bargaining proposition, we should be represented on the truce team by the same kind of “neutrals” that the Communists have selected. . The present Allied nominees are Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. These nominations should be withdrawn, and new nominations made of nations which can be ‘depended upon to stand up to the Russians under any and all circumstances. Australia, Turkey and Portugal would meet those specifications. So would Canada, Greece and Spain. Had the United Nations strategists any imagination at all, they would have led off with a ticket of this kind in .the first place, since it was a foregone conclusion that the Communists would present an all-Red slate for the sixmember team. But it isn't too late to change candidates now that the Reds have shown their hand. Since the Communists insist upon representation of their own choosing, they cannot deny the Allies the same right, and the latter would be foolish to proceed on any other basis.

Mr. ‘Morris’ Questionnaire

NEWBOLD MORRIS, the President's corruption hunter, is off to a good start in his proposed questionnaire to require key government officials to disclose all sources of income. ; 5 Such a questionnaire should not embarrass anyone who has undertaken a government job solely to perform a public service. It can only embarrass a person who, while working for the government, has retained or has gained a financial stake that conflicts with the government's interestq There is nothing wrong, in itself, in a goverhment official having outside income. In fact, alittle extra income can be a mighty handy thing to a fellow who accepts a

require. But it certainly can give the appearance and possibility of wrong for anyone with an outside income to hold an official position where he has the power to make decisions which might increase or diminish that income. And if such an official makes a decision which actually results in favoring his own financial interests over that of some other sitizen, it is an act which cannot bear scrutiny and cannot be xcused. The honest rewards of public-life are not large financially—and should not be. But to those who serve selflessly, there are other compensations and satisfactions. They are

ity of honest officials, whose good name and standards of ~— values should be protected against unethical acts of a minority who might have reason to be ashamed of their ‘ncome sources. s i

Match Taft and lke :

HERE can be no complaint that contests are not shajing up in the various state presidential primaries which begin with the New Hampshire affair next month.

tenders, Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhower, are not face to face in more of these encounters. As things now stand, they are sure opponents only in New "Hampshire. Gen. Eisenhower's name or a slate of ‘delegates for him is entered also in Pennsylvania and MinResets, Mr, Taft is in® Wisconsin, Illinois, OBio and Wesl Virginia. . Mr. Taft is limiting himself to states where he can actively campaign. Gen. Eisenhower's backers cannot enter their man in any spots where formal consent of the candidate is required. There are two principal battlegrounds where the prime adversaries still -may meet New Jersey and Oregon. In the interest of a clear-cut indication of their relative standing among the voters of America, it is*hoped their names ‘ill be entered in both these states. .

? Exposure in Washington

by raising the edges of the third-floor roof to get the “equired exposure, - That's not the only roof-raising going on because of some long-needed exposure in Washington.

: WF THE French government ‘gets approval for a 15 per cent tax rise, it may collect that much of it.

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. NOW that he has a glass’ penthotise, President Truman may not throw so many stones in this campaign.

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. By Oland D. Russell

Japanese Fear Their Own Reds Mora Than Soviet Threat

TOKYO, Feb, 26-—Japanese got a bad scare from. the recent Communist demonstrations and clashes with police, By and large the Japanese are more afraid of their own Commies than

they are of ‘Russia. »

‘This 1s because generally silent on

Japanese authorities, while the Soviet threat, have tepeatedly warned of armed uprisings inspired by Communists here. They've warned, too, .that some blowoff might ‘come when the United States ‘and Japan conclude peace pact details for keeping. our troops in Japan. Evidently the Japanese Reds figured the pact was to be dis. closed Friday, as had been hinted in the Japanese press, In, any case, last Thursday's riots were looked upon as a test of the Reds’ own strength,

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and as a rehearsal of more ambitious plans, It is. notable that the Communists introduced new weapons in their attacks on police, These

included crude tear bombs (mostly “bottled ammonpia), "blinding powders” and nail-spiked clubs, They did not use “firearms, although it is believed they have sizable supply. Now

Premier Yoshida has ordered drastic measures to unearth leaders and seize all weapons, No Americans or foreigners were molested. But there have been cases lately of rising temper among Japanese, encouraged by Communists, One American colonel, for instance said he was roughly shoved up ‘against a building by three Japanese -while walking on a downtown sidewalk at mid-day, American traders who deal extensively with Japanese customs officials say minor employees have been increasingly ill natured and officious. Such cases

By Andrew Tully

Truman—Jolliest Guy in Town

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 President Truman may be having a tough time deciding whether te run again, but you'd never prove it by him— for the past month he's been just about the Jolliest guy in town. ‘His good nature seems unbounded. Whether addressing a Masonic breakfast or fencing with the press, he exudes high spirits, And he wades through his back-breaking schedule with the air of a man who's never had so much fun in his life. MT. Truman, ever since he took office as a frightened ex-vice. president, has dwelt gloomily on the heavy responsibilities of the presidency. He still does—but - lately he kids about it. Thus he told the Masons at a breakfast the other day’ that, although his was an allday and nearly all-night job, “between you and me and the gatepost, I like it.”

Humor Man SEVERAL ' days earlier, “his good humor spilled all over the place as. he took: some reporters on a tour of the reconstrucfed White House. It obviously tickled him to tell the bathtub story—how; béfore the White House was fixed, he worried lest he fall in his bathtub through the floor and into the laps.of some DAR ladies having tea with Mrs. Truman. It's significant, too, that it was the President who suggested the tour. Unhappy politicians

Mr. Truman «| like #1."

_ don’t think of such things.

Then there was Mr, Truman's typical ad lib at the reception given him and Mrs. Truman by the Congressional Club. Mrs. Truman had bad a birthday a few days before. So she was pre: sented with a cake, while. the members sang “happy birthday.” Harry Truman beamed happily on Bess, hen leancd over and kissed her soundly on the heek. .*

SIDE GLANCES

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Even answering tough questions at press conferences, Mr. Truman's good humor prevails, Instead of snapping back at the reporter who asks him a needler, he now merely delivers a solemn but Kindly little lecture. Often, he manages a little smile to keep things pleasant,

It's evident, too, that Mr. Truman has been thinking about age lately and has concluded he's not yet an old man. He is supposed to have remarked to an aide that his age—68— would have nothing to do with his decision to run again or. not. ;

Excellent Health

_ AFTER all, the President is reported to have said, Gen. MacArthur is 72, and, he, the President, would not be 72 for four years.

And Mr, Truman does seem in excellent health. He's still tanned from that last Key West” holiday-——with the help, proBably, of an occasional ‘sun lamp session. He moves vigorously and gazes out of clear eyes. He's gained weight, though. His jowls seem a little thicker and his mid-section has expanded considerably ~it's- especially . noticeable when he wears a single-breasted suit.

Maybe this new stoutness and not his political thoughts is the secret of Mr. Truman's recent amiability. After all, fat men are sipposed to be jollier than thin men, aren't they?

What Others Say—

IFF EVERYBODY who claims to have come over (to England) with William the Conqueror were right, William must have landed with 200,000 men-at-arms instead of about 12,000.—L. G. Pine, editor of Britain's Landed Gentry.

FOR every single ‘person corrupt there are 1399 employees who are all right. If that keeps up, heaven is going to be crowded. I only hepe the ratio of 1400 to 1 for honesty in gevernment ts- true in business.—Frank E. McKinney, Democratiec national chairman.

‘EXPERIMENT’

WASHINGTON Fe f».264 Our poor, old, beat-up, moneylosing Post Office Department uted to deliver more letters to the wrong people in Richmond, Va., than anywhére else. There were complaints. Democrats even threatened to turn Republican. _ f So the. Postmaster General, the Hon. Jesse M. Donaldson, tried a sensational remedy. He gave the main Post Office in Richmond ‘a coat of lightcolored paint. Now the clerks can read the addresses on the envelopes, Missent mail has ceased to be a problem in Richmond. : What the House Appropria- - tions Committee (which pays the postal deficits every year) couldn't understand was why the Hon, Jesse hadn't painted the interiors of a few more Post Offices, where the lighting effects are similar.to those of a Cecil B. DeMille dungeon full of Christians waiting “for the lions, Mr. Donaldson ‘had a fine excuse. He's not responsible for ¢ painting Post Offices. That's the job of the General Services Administration and it hasn't got around to it yet. Rich‘mond he said, was just an’ exBering A jo. a whether it . wo p ¥ mak ug it 1 pos. - sible for the clerks . sm The EO , were

‘for trouble at a paper company plant

"was forced to give it up.

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could mean some Japanese are believing the Communists’ claims that we are trying to make a colony of Japan, The latest demonstrations included many placards denouncing “American colonization of Japan.” Still, others carried by women, pledged a fight against conscription for a Japanese army and rearming generally, In Osaka, demonstrators harangued the United Nations for stalling Korean truce talks. Tokyo police had been alerted pamicularly where strikes were on, but the quick spread of violence surprised them. Though outnumbered in some areas, they performed creditably enough. Still, some here thought they lacked the old tooth-and-nail vindictiveness with which prewar police took on demonstrators against the existing order. Afterward, of the few hundred sus-

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pects arrested, most were quickly released. “This, too, ig in contrast to tHe old days. The country's new defense force, the Na. tional Police Reserve (NPR), had no part in the affrays. [he reserves are mostly stationed away from the big cities—a fact that undohtedly figures in Communist riet planning “and the NPR does not yet have sufficient mobility to handle such emergencies, The demonstrations seemed to bear out recent Japanese intelligence foretasts that the country is in for a wave of violence directed by the Reds’ new elite military leadership, These leaders, tutored by high-level Communists in Manchuria or China, recently infiltrated to Japan. Japan's total Communists are put at 90,000, with possibly a quarter of a million sympathizers.

By Ludwell Denny

Will Churchill Modify Policy?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-—-The anti-Ameri-

..can.-.debate.in the British House of Commons

has been resumed today. Prime Minister Winston Churchill doubtless will escape the vote of personal censure moved by the Labor Party. But the suspicious attitude of his own Conservative Party may draw from him a further modifying statement regarding his January agreement here with President Truman on a firm Far Eastern policy. Most of Britain's public and press think: Washington wants to extend the Korean War to China and has committed the London government to that highly unpapular policy. These fears are based on the Prime Minister's pledge to Congress, while here, that Britain's response

Mr. Churchill . + . retreat?

to any Red violation of a Korean truce would

be “prompt, resolute and effective.” Before the King’s death interrupted the parliamentary debate, Mr Churchill bowed to pressure to the extent of denying he made any definite commitments here. That, however, has not appeased either his own party or the Labor opposition, which is stumping the country on this issue. Parliamentary hostility to British aid for “an American war against China” is matched by congressional agitation here against American commitments to “a British war in the Middle East’—fears also based on the Churchill address to Congress, in ‘which he unwisely sug-

igested token American forces for the Suez.

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DEFENSE . .

These critical movements in Londen’ and Washington jeopardize gains made in the Tru-man-Churchill conference for closer AmericanBritish co-operation against Red aggression, And both movements are hased-—-in part, at least —on public misunderstandings.

The widespread British idea {hat Mr. Churchill has chained himself to American policy in the Far East is as erroneous as the notion here that Mr. Truman has tied the United States to British policy in the Middle East. Each government maintains freedom of action.

Nevertheless, Mr. Truman and Mr. Churchill did agree on. their diagnosis and aim in a rather wide range of situations in the Far East and Middle East. Moreover, they agreed to consult in advance with the hope of achieving joint action as crises arise,

British Opinion

AS REGARDS China, two issues.are confused by British opinion—and to some extent by American opinion. One is whether the United States deliberately will extend the Korean War to China proper. The other is whether a broken Korean truce or another Chinese offensive will force the Allies in self-defense to retaliate against enemy bases and communications in Manchurja and China. The Truman-Churchill policy favors a Kerean truce and opposes voluntary attack on China. But the Truman-Churchill conferences here recognized that Chinese breach’ of a truce, or Chinese aggression in Indo-China or elsewhere, should be met by United Nations action against China.

. By Clyde Farnsworth

Tunisia—Between 2 Worlds

TUNIS, Feb. 26—Tunigia is involved in the rival strategic plans of a divided world.

Tunisia is ,jmportant to the defense of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. An aggressor aiming to take over any or all of the three would likely plan to capture, minimize or fence off Tunisia. The people of Tunisia—principally 3 million or so Tunisians, mostly Moslems—would rather be ‘citizens of a free nation than citizens of a French colony, which they are now. Thus, here is an omelette with many ingredients: Global strategy. A collision between French colonialism and Islamic nationalism. Communist opporfunism.- French and Tunisian violence, Hatred. Stupidity. -Avarice and selfinterest.

Primary Target '

THE omelette will not be easy to unscramble. .

A geographical circumstance made the Mediterranean Basin the birthplace of Western civilization—three continents meet there. That same circumstance now makes the region a primary target for communism—that, and the Middle East's treasure trove of petroleum. Islamic nationalism has touched off three major blasts in this region within a year: (1)

MR. EDITOR:

I am prompted to write this letter to you for the ‘following reasons. I have just recently subscribed to your paper, and find that at least you will give a person who has been affiliated with the Democratic Party¥nearly 50 years, the right to think and that there is some good in the party and its followers. - Also, from the few copies I have to date received, 1 feel that you are willing for your readers to think for themselves and that you will give the faults of leaders of hoth parties. We Democrats make mistakes, know we have misfits, and if the shoe fits we will have to wear it. But Riso the Republicans make mistakes and have ‘their bad ones, but not according to The Indianapolis Star.

I have been a near constant subscriber or reader of the Star fer 15 or 20 years but it finally got so abusive to the Democrats that I I am willing to take

‘ By Frederick C. Othman

Sheds a Little ‘Light’ on Postal Problem

that the Post Office Depart-

was dragging its of -a

HOOSIER FORUM— Fine Parner

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

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handful of my mail in the stove service

will be’ a Hoosier Ete,

The nationalization of Iranian oil (2) Egypt's breaking off treaties on Suez and the Sudan and (3) the Tunisian disorders. All three were directed against extraordinary privileges held by Britain or France. They were signs of the determination of people to ‘run their own affairs, even into the ground. = All this pleased the Communists. Local Reds have helped things along, but were not the prima movers, Islamic nationalism in Iran, Egypt and Tunisia is far stronger than the Communists who traipse along.

The Keystone TUNISIA is the keystone of the AfricanMediterranean arch. Midway between Gibraltar and the Dardaelles, Tunsia lies on a great jog of the African continent. American air preparedness indicates with its bases to Tunisia's right and left, Libya and French Merocco. The Germans captured and ran Tunisia dure ing World War II. Later the axis surrender on Cap Bon in Tunisia operied a grab-bag of arms and ammunition for Tunisian nationalists, principally the Neodestour Party which has been trying to lobsen French ties for two decades.

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abuse but when it is day in and day out it finally reaches a limit. I have served the Democratic Party as an elected officer, county chairman, county treasurer, delegate to the state convention. as an alternate délegateé from the Sixth District to the last national convention and have tried to represent my party honorably and honestly, But by the time the Star got through telling how crooked, corrupt, low down we Democrats are, if it had not been for my wide contact with people, both Republicans as well as Democrats,

the Star might in time have made a Communist out of me,

I don't know what party your paper is af« filiated with: I don't ny’ your paper ar ness, but as long as you give the facts and if my party shows crooked transactions and crooked leaders, bring them out in the open. Likewise with ‘the Republican Party and its leaders. I can remember the Teapot Dome. I doubt if the other paper ever heard of it. Well, we could go on and on, but what's the use. There state long after the Pulliamsg In short, I like your paper,

—F. C. L., Perrpatille.

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Va.) said he bet the postal

the service would be improved if

station,”

"engines to postmen on

feet when it got around to im-

proving the service, Mr. Donaldson was hurt. Not so, he cried. Why, he said, he was" giving scooters with gas long beats, Some others thought they could deliver the mails better if they had little carts like caddieless golfers use. Mr. Donaldson got the carts. Yes, said Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.), but he bought a lot of 3-cent stamps a while back to put on 66,000 campaign letters. And what happened’ “One of your carriers was

seen by a lady to throw a. §

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GOD IS NEAR

cheated Congressman said. “She went in, stuck her hand in the fire, burned herself

severely, and pulled those let- |

ters out.” . * t Our Postmaster General sighed. Those things will hap-

pen. Letter carriers sometimes"

get whiffed. Why, said he, last Christmas, one of these weary employees — a temporary one, fortunately, for the honoyp-of the department—stuck a whole

- sack of mail in a snow bank.

“He just got tired, stuck it in there, and went home.” the Hon, Jesse said. Rep. J. Vaughan Gary (D.

WHETHER skies are dark, or, sunny . . , God is with us all the time , . . He Is “near when we kmow sorrow . . . or when every-

thing's sublime .

« « God is present every frac-

re tion , . . of each moment that ‘we live , -, . and He never will forsake us . .": for His code.is to forgive . . . He is truly our companion . . , and the truest friend we know ... . ‘always

tender and enduring

+ «+ « keeping faith and hope aglow . . . all He wants for His great

friendship . . . is that all of us believe . . .

_- Imghe mysteries he teaches . . . things that we . cannot conceive . .-. if we do He will not leave

us...and His love will never end . . . He . will be our friend forever . .. through a life

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the management would do a simple little thing like putting grease racks in/its garages, Then the gréase monkeys Youmans have to slide around on eir backs, on a oiling the Poor Jesse. He said he'd been buying grease racks as fast as he could. Yes, said his assistant,. V. ‘C. Burke, and sometimes the mechanics re fused to use ‘em. Right here in Washington, he added, is a truck expert who insists on not using aie rack. ught to be fired, said Re Gary. And what about the to grease racks that have been gathering dust in Detroit * This took some time to explain. But Mr. Donaldson said the department decided to orGor holm last“April. They arriv n troit last August. They’ re - in their Pe cases. He kept on nudging the General Services peaple, whese duty it is to install grease racks, but about ‘all he got

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