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‘Heads | Win’ Government

F THIS had happened in Russi, those responsible for. it

would have been shot. In Britain, it would have brought a vote of “no con-

fidence” and a change in ‘governments. Since it happened here, where we have come to expect such things under this administration; nothing is likely to be done about if. But it helps to explain why Russia's armament industry is able to outproduce ours—particularly in combat aircraft—despite our great superiority in plants

an equipment. : Here is the story, right out of the mouth of Air Force Undersecretary Roswell L. Gilpatric, as told to a Senate

committee: : Twenty months after the outbreak of the war in Korea,

our military leaders still have not made basic decisions which should have been made in two months.

UNTIL LAST fall, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had not decided the relative importance of various weapons competing for the same short-supply tools and materials. Today, dut of 256 items which the competing services regard “as all-important, only 12 have been given priorities. Note that term—"all-important.” “The only way we could get anything at all done last fall,” Mr. Gilpatric lamely explained, “was to agree to a Joint Chiefs’ plan by which each service selected the four items which it considered most important and which were then put on a special list, with the code name ‘brickbat,’ and given special and equal priority.” To most men the use of that code name would have suggested that the place to use brickbats was on the heads of the Joint Chiefs. But Mr. Gilpatric doesn’t appear to be that kind of a man. However, we are at least indebted to him for telling us the source of our trouble. ; When Sen. Moody of Michigan asked Mr. Gilpatric how the Joint Chiefs ranked nonbrickbat items in allotting for their production tools and materials, he made another amazing revelation. “Actually,” he said, “the Joint Chiefs were unable to agree on any system.” a . . ” SO WHAT did they do? Why, what three small boys might have done under similar circumstances. “They just tossed a coin and the ir Force won.” So the Air Force picked the first item on the list. The Army won the second toss, and got the second item. The Navy came in last, then the Air Force was given a second selection. As one result of this “heads-I-win” war planning, Mr. Gilpatric is afraid that a number of “critical programs,” including the F-84 Sabrejet plane, will not be in real production this year. Bad as things are, they would have been much worse had it not been for a lot of pressure from Charles E. Wilson, Chief Defense Mobilizer, and his aid, the Air Undersecretary said. . Here we have an inside picture of unification under a President who doesn’t seem to know how to put his house in order—or who may not even know that it is out of order. If the boys in Korea wonder why the Reds have more iet planes than we have, the answer is here.

Another Danger Signal AST YEAR upon his return to the United States, Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned against rearming Europe to the neglect of Asia, when both continents faced a common danger. : Now a Frenchman, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, has hoisted the same warning signal, urging a world pact to unite Europe, Africa and Asia against Communist imperialism. So many other eminent military men have expressed similar views that one wonders who drafted the foreign assistance section of President Truman's so-called mutual security program? A review of that program supports the

charge, of, a London magazine, which declared the Atlantic |

Pact appears to be largely a device to “keep dollars flowing across the Atlantic,” with little regard for the purpose for which they are intended. There are two full-scale wars going on in Asia—one in Indo-China, the other in Korea. The Communists are winning the first, and the Allies are willing to settle the second one for a stalemate, Mr. Truman proposes to limit our assistance to this general area to $611 million. But he is prepared to spend nearly 10 times as much in Europe,

where there isn’t any shooting, and where the Communist

threat is treated with relative indifference.

i This is utterly unrealistic, not to employ a stronger term. »

AGAIN AND again the- President has stressed our need of Allies. Need them we surely do. But where do we need them mos$, and soonest? In Asia, where we are fighting with our backs to the wall? Or in Europe, where the fighting hasn’t begun? . Most of the $611 million is to be divided between IndoChina and the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, with the remainder going to the Philippines and Siam. This is about the amount that France alone received last year. The allocation for Indo-China probably is too little, as well as too late. The less than $300 million the Formosa Chinese are likely to get won't go far toward arming 500,000 troops, to say nothing of giving them needed air support. The mutual aid program is silent on the subject of Japan; presumably, the strongest potential ally in Asia is to be left out of the picture for at least another year.

The term “potential” as applied to Japan is a proper

reservation. If the Japanese situation is bungled as badly as

the German problem has been, the Japanese may not want

<to have any part of us, by the time we make up our minds what we want of them. on :

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| 300,000 WORDS . i By Richard Starnes se Senators Want Lattimore’s Te

WASHINGTON, Mar, 13— Some members of ‘the Senate's Internal Security Committee want Owen Lattimore’s tortuous 300,000. words of

testimony sifted by the Justice Department for

evidence of perjury. “The committee, headed by Sen. Pat McCarran (D. Nev.), is trying to show that Lommunists penetrated the Institute of Pacific Relations cand used it as a propaganda machine to urge a “soft, policy toward Red China. Mr. Lattimore, now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, edited one of IPR's publications for seven years. The committee has been told that he was one of the people who controlled the organiza- / tion, This he denies, He also denies that he helped fix U, 8. foreign policy and claims it's not significant that many of the policies he urged toward China later were adopted by the State Department, Mr. Lattimore is no stranger: to congressional Investigations. In 1950, the: Tydings committee gave him a clear bill of health. Ben. Millard Tydings (D. Md.) was defeated for re-election. His opponent had charged Sen. Tydings whitewashed the Investigation. Mr. Lattimore has not fared well before the McCarran committee, however. A searching cross-examination revealed discrepancies between Yis testimony to the Tydings committee and the McCarran group. For example: In 1850 Mr. Lattimore told the Tydings committee he had not had a desk at the State Department, where, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. Wis.) had charged Mr. Latt{more was a “sinister influence.” But in the scornful attack on the McCarran committee with which Mr, Lattimore opened his defense, he admitted that he had a desk in the office of Lauchlin Currie, then an assistant to President Roosevelt, “in the building that housed the State Department and the Bureau of the Budget. “I confess,” he added, “I did not think of this when the charge was originally made.” Robert Morris, McCarran committee counsel, brought out two other damaging admissions by Mr. Lattimore in connection with the office.

In and Out

Mr. Lattimore « « » couldn't remember

IN WARLIER testimony, Mr. Lattimore in-

sisted his use of the office was “irregular and infrequent.” Me Morris, however, produced a photostat of a ter taken from IPR files in which Mr. Lattimore had written: “I am in Washington about four days a week and when there can always be reached at Lauchlin Currie’s office.” Mr. Morris scored another blow when he refuted ‘Mr, Lattimore’s earlier sworn testimony that never during World. War II did he have the privilege of answering Mr. Currie’s mail. Another letter signed by Mr. Lattimore was Introduced. Dated July 15, 1942, it was addressed to Edward C. Carter, then secretarygeneral of IPR, and said: “Currie asked me to take care of his correspondence while he was away and in view of your telegram I think I had better tell you that he has gone to China on a special trip. This news is absolutely confidential, . .” Asked to explain, Mr, Lattimore said: “Obviously my memory was inaccurate.” Mr. Lattimore also admitted that his memory had played him false on the question of Frederick Vanderbilt Field, onetime financial backer and official of IPR, who was jailed for refusing to divulge the source of Communist bail bond funds, Mr. Lattimore told the Tydings committee that he had not known Field as a Communist Party line follower until about the time Mr. Lattimore’s editorship of IPR's ‘“Pacific Affairs” was drawing to a close in 1941. Fixing the date was important-—-Mr, Lattimore had sworn he “never worked in concert” with people he knew to be Communists. '

A Letter From Field

MR. MORRIS then introduced a copy ofsa letter from Field to Mr. Lattimore which showed that, as early.in 1936, Field sought to persuade Mr. Lattimore of the ‘“norexpansive character of the Soviet Union.” Another letter from Field to Mr. Lattimore, dated Oct. 3, 1939, said in part: “.... Both (world) wars are imperialist wars in the Marxist sense of the word. The historical result, however, will be the inevitable overthrow of the ruling groups in all the belligerent countries.” The letter was written before Germany attacked Russia. “I don’t remember receiving the letter,” Mr. Lattimore told the McCarran committee, “and my recollection has been-that I began to think of Field as a close fellow-traveler of the Russians in 1941." But judging from this letter my memory was in error by about two years, Mr. Lattimore denied he ever printed articles by people he knew to be Communists, except for manuscripts from the Soviet branch of IPR and” one ‘clearly labled” article by a Chinese Communist. Mr. Morris then brought out the fact that a German Communist named Hans Mueller wrote for Mr. Lattimore’s magazine under the penname of “Asiaticus.” In closed sessions of the committee Mr, Lattimore "denied he knew Asiaticus to be a Communist. In public hearings, Mr. Morris introduced a memorandum summary of a meeting of IPR personnel in Moscow on Apr. 12, 1939. The memo stated that Lattimore had told the ‘con-. ference: In the next issue of PA (Pacific Affairs) there is to be an article by a Communist writer

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which Is antagonistic to the Chinese council (of IPR) and the British council. He likewise does not represent the Soviet council, This will be a leading article and will represent a personal opinion.” ; It was pointed out that the June, 1938, issue

of Pacific Affairs contained an. article by .

Aslaticus. Committee Attorriey J. G. Sourwine sought to establish that Mr. Lattimore had

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been’ talking about Asiaticus in Moscow—therefore, Mr. Lattimore had known him to be a Communist. Mr. Lattimore denied that he had been talking about Asiaticus, although he acknowledged that it might seem so. Mr. Sourwine showed that the June issue of Pacific Affairs had arrived at the Library of Congress copyright office early in May. He

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MR. EDITOR:

I wish to express my admiration for your recent editorial regarding picket lines and unions. There are probably a great many people like myself who believe in the principles of good unions when needed and voted for by the majority of a group of employees. But there is nothing sacred about pickét lines even when they are voted for by the majority. If unions are to be democratic, the minority have the right to their opinions, too, and the people who would use violence in :an attempt to change those opinions are the contemptible ones and not the people with the courage to stick with their convictions. Unions were conceived at a time when exploitation of labor was widespread, but Communists, thugs and parasites rode in with a good cause and seek to destroy the dignity of labor. It is the duty of newspapers and all citizens to use every possible means to remove the hoodlums that infest the unions.

REGARDING your recently published articles by Wm. DeWitt: His theories would have made interesting reading in the Hoosier Forum under “One Man's Opinion” or under a ‘paid advertisement” column. Since I have taken a few alcoholic drinks in

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

IT LOOKS as if President Truman’s corruption investigator, Newbold Morris, has been torpedoed by a tanker,

FEDERAL Security Administrator Ewing is going to launch a series of broadcasts on health, education and economic security and nobody can hardly wait.

GENERAL BATISTA may not have restored democracy in Cuba—but he sure has set it back.

Mr. Morris AS AN economist, Sen, . +. torpedoed Paul Douglas (D. IIL) “se. : P lected water as the best med-

fum to illustrate what is happening to U. ST

dollars.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 13 —1 don't know who's got a diseased mind. Or deals in money soaked in American blood. Or acts like a terrier and treats an assistant attorney general like a dog. All I do know for certain is that I've never heard so many gentlemen talk like they weren't. I'm referring to some of our distinguished Senators and President Truman's equally distinguished corruption eradicator, Newbold Morris.

The three Senators accused the hot-tempered Morris of letting sea-going tankers under his control haul oil to Communist China until a month before the outbreak of the Korean War. . Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) charged him with helping sign the death warrant of American boys. Mr. Morris turned white. He also turned around and faced the other way in the investigating committee’s room. Chairman Clyde Hoey (D. N.C.) wonder¥d if he could hear the gentleman from Wisconsin. . “I can héar him.” roared Mr, Morris. “I'll dream about him tonight.” . :

“You were either the greatest

daughter's boy friend stand the shock of seeing us ‘dope and dupe of all time, or : a you made. a great deal of

‘as we really are?"

my life, I haven't always been a teetotaler and I certainly~wouldn’t go so far as to say that people who take a little nip now and then for pleasure or just for the heck of it, are abnormal. But Wm. DeWitt's obvious belief that all normal people indulge in social drinking and that group drinking is inherited wisdom is downright ridiculous. Insofar as I can see, it requires no wisdom to guzzle a glass of liquor. Incidentally, who drives all the cars when a group of drinkers disburse? —Times Subscriber, City

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About Himself * IN SUSPENSE ~.

How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell ‘us plainly, Jesus answered them, | told you, and you do not believe. The works that | do in my Father's name, they bear witness to me. John 10:24-25. Read verses 22-3.

How often we are in suspense about many things, sub pendo, hanging under the threat of catastrophe or decision or mystery. We look to Jesus, even now, and ask: Why keep us in suspense about yourself and about the issues of life? Tell us plainly all the answers to our hardest questions. But there are no easy answers. What Jesus did was the verification of his divinity, because what he did had o divine quality. And these same deeds of Jesus are the proof also of his humanity, full and complete. He was fully divine and fully human. Or as Phillips Brooks said, “Jesus is the condescension of God and the exaltation of man.”

Sometimes we shake a fist at God and ask, “How long will you keep us in suspense? Show us who you are, show us the future, tell us plainly.” And God answers as Jesus did, that his mighty works bear witness of Him. God shows his nature plainly enough in the flowering earth, in the starry heavens, in the face of a child, in the seasons of the soul. >

Let Us Pray: Our Fother, open our eyes und hearts to all that Jesus has done both before and after His resurrection to bear witness to His lordship, and may we never doubt that he is our Master. Amen,

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stimony Sifted for Perjury

then tried to establish that the article .by Asiaticus had been ready for publication at the time Mr, Lattimore mentioned the forthcoming story “by a Communist writer.” Mr. Lattimore rejected this interpretation and in doing so swore that, in the seven years he edited Pacific Affairs, he had never known how much time lag occurred between prepara tion of articles and publication of the magae zine, . :

Mr. Lattimore stumbled again when he was _

asked if he had ref an article written for Far Eastern Survey, another IPR publication, by T. A. Bisson. The article referred to Communist China as “Democratic” and Nationalist China as “Feudal.”

‘Exceedingly Busy’ MR. LATTIMORE testified: “I don’t believe I did. At that time I was exceedingly busy as deputy director of OWI in San Francisco and I don’t believe I was keeping up with “IPR publications at all.”

Mr. Morris asked: {You did not at that time read the Bisson article and the Bisson-article was contrary to things you were writing at that time?” - - > Replied Mr. Lattimore: “. + . did not read the article at that time, didn’t know of it until some vague time later, and most of my knowledge of it at this moment is based on reading the transcripts of these proceedings. , . . I believe it was completely contrary. ... .” Mr. Morris then .introduced a photostat of a letter on stationary of the OWI San Frane cisco office and bearing the signature of Mr, Lattimore. The letter was dated July 26, 1943, It said: “Your letter of July 20 arrived just as I was reading T, A. Bisson’s article on China. I was trying to formulate for myself some way of expressing an opinion. I think you do this very well. Bisson's terminology will turn away, a number of people whom he might have pere suaded with the use of a different terminology, Nevertheless, I think his main points are as sound as you think they are.” Another point in Mr. Lattimore’s testimony that committee members want looked into was regarding the Ch’ao-ting Chi, who wrote some articles for Pacific Affairs. Mr. Lattimore denied that he knew or had been in- § formed that Chi was a Communist. Mr. Morris then introduced the closedsession testimony of E. Newton Steely, University Park, Md., member of the Civil Service Commission’s Board of Appeals and Review. Mr, Steely had testified that he had told Mr. Lattimore about Chis Communist record. It said:

“Dr. Kung Chuan

Sen. McCarran « « « couldn't forget

Chi has been investigated by the (Civil Service)

Commission for post as assistant languag - tor (Chinese) of OWI and his case is now 2 ing before the commission. In view of the fact that Mr, Lattimore is relying upon Mr. Chi's recommendations. . . , OWI representatives were also informed of the unfavorable information secured regarding Dr. Chi and his son (Ch’ao~ ting Chi) which included testimony to the effect that young Dr. Chi.is or was until recently a Cdmmunist and that at one time he was a dele= gate to the Third Internationale in Moscow.” More lapses cropped up in Mr. Lattimore’s account of a trip to Yenan, then capital of Come munist China, in 1937. In closed session, Mr Lattimore was asked whether he had arranged with the Communists for permission to visit

_Yenan.

“None whatever,” he said.

‘I Sent a Letter...’ ~

IN PUBLIC sessions, however, Mr. Morris introduced an account of the trip Mr. Lattimore wrote for the London Times. In it, Mr. Lattie more said: “I sent a letter to the Red capital .#. and I got in answer a cordial invitation.”

Mr. Lattimore then admitted sending a lete

ter to the Red capital “by ordinary mail” from Nationalist China.

Mr. Morris quoted another paragraph from Mr, Lattimore’s account of his Yenan trip. Of his departure, Mr. Lattimore wrote: “Others were laughing, arguing, giving vere bal and written messages to be taken out, for communication with the outside world is not entirely free.” } Committee counsel sought to prove by this that “ordinary mail” was not moving freely bee tween Nationalist and Communist China at that time. Mr. Lattimore brushed that off, ine sisting that his statement describing the “ore dinary mail” clearance by the Reds was entirely accurate. Simultaneously, however, he denied that the paragraph describing his departure from Yenan was false, Another contradiction turned up in Mr, Late timore’s account of a luncheon with Constane tine Oumansky, Soviet ambassador to the U..8., in June, 1941. Mr. Lattimore’s earlier testimony was that the luncheon took place after Gere many’s attack on Russia. ol Before the McCarran committee, however, Mr. . Lattimore’s memory was refreshed—he conceded that the lunch was four days before the German attack—that is, while the Hitler Stalin peace pact was still in effect. Moreover, Mr. Lattimore admitted he had informed Mr. Oumansky that he was going to

to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Late timore maintained that he hadn't told Mr, Oumansky what his mission to China was.

ROUGH ON PENCILS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Insults Fly Back and Forth in Morris Probe

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money soaked in American blood,” Sen. McCarthy persisted. That did it. For three hours so many insults flew back and forth that I wore out four pen-

. cils trying to jot down the hot- - test ones. Between snarls and

high-class billingsgate there also emerged a few facts:

Two of Mr. Morris’ tankers made four voyages, plus two extra side trips, with Communist oil for the Chinese Reds. Their cargoes included kerosene, fuel oil, peanut oil and— in May, 1950-1008 tons of aviation lubricating oil. The war began in June. Mr.- Morris did not think this was important, but he also be-

lleved the State Department then approved of trade with the Communists.

He said that Sen. McCarthy had treated him like a dog; that Sen. Karl A. Mundt (R. S.D.) was dreadfully confused, and that Sen. Robert Nixon (R. Cal.) probably would learn how to act in public when he grew a little older. He added that you couldn't kill people with peanut ofl. Sen. McCarthy retorted that 1000 tons of lubricating oil added up to 250,000 gallons. “You were talking about peanut oil,” Mr, Morris cried. “Now you're talking about peanuts. That much oil wouldn't

lubricate the taxicabs in Wash-,

ington in one day.”

THE BARBER

. EVERY visit to the barber . .. is a trip to peace of mind . . . for the barber is a diplomat « « « of special worth and kind .°, , he‘is full of funny stories . . . and he always wears a smile « +» 88 we talk about the weather... he is very Versatile . . . when I hear his scissors clicking « « « I am sort of lulled to rest... for the clickclack sound of scissors .. . plays a lullaby the best . . . I relax both mind and muscle , . , when

Fm having my hair cut . . . while I listen to

the patrons . . . pass the latest scuttlebutt . . . and the barber goes on cutting . . . just as if he never heard . . . but the barber is a diplomat « «+ « Who listens to each word. T. - ~==By Ben Burroughs.

He charged his senatorial

“ critics with treating him as the

Communists had Cardinal Mindzenty. Mr. Morris said that Sen. Mc« Carthy persisted in acting like a terrier, always wanting to shake something. He said congressional investigators were creating a situation so vile the people were losing confidence in their government. “You're being pretty critical of Congress,” suggested Sen, Mundt. “Not nearly so critical as 140 million other people,” roared Mr. Morris. “You ought to hear ‘em in the corner grocery.” Sen. Mundt said he was grows ing weary of being interrupted constantly, even’ by a fellow Republican like Mr, Morris. “Why don’t you and I go out to ‘lunch and when we come back everything will be sete tled,” said Mr. Morris, “I une derstand -that's the way it's done in Washington.” By now the imperturbable Chairman Hoey was becoming nettled. He tried to shush the man who is supposed to clean the skulduggery out of governe ment, but Mr. Morris was have ing none of that. “I don’t think any man with red blood in his veins can sit here and take the insinuations by the diseased

minds in this chamber,” he

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