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India Boots Out TASS

THE RUSSIAN government is going to call home the chief correspondent of the TASS news agency in New Delhi, the capital of India. This is a result of protests by the Indian government against. ‘distorted’ Moscow broadcasts about that nation. : : Whatever this correspondent wrote about India; or whatever Moscow broadcasts about India, it could be no more outrageous than the fantastic falsehoods the Russians print and broadcast about the United States every day. Many of these “news items” are alleged to be based upon TASS dispatches from its representatives in the United States. How does it happen that India, a relatively weak nation, can make Russia back down in this matter and we can not? One reason, of course, is that it is Russian pelicy to cultivate friendship with India in an effort to soften it up for eventual capture by communism. :

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ANOTHER is that the United States government has done nothing about Russian “reporting” from this country except to complain about it now and then: Here we play into the hands of the Kremlin by pmwtending that correspondents of TASS are legitimate foreign newspapermen, We give them all the privileges we extend «to correspondents from Great Britain, France and otheg “free nations. They are even allowed to attend press con‘ferences of the President. "TASS correspondents acknowledge they are representatives of the Russian government. They are so registered ‘with the Justice Department. The chief TASS correspondent in W is not even a newspaperman by profession; _he is an aviation engineer—doubtless an able one who manages to pick up much interesting technieal information for “his bosses in Moscow while on his “news gathering” rounds. When a committee of newspaper editors suggested last year that TASS correspondents be barred from Congress’ galleries, the committee of U. 8. correspondents which «governs the galleries asked the State Department for its ‘recommendation. The State Department responded with a “weasel-worded reply in which it declined to make a wecommendation. The committee then voted to permit the TASS correspondents to remain. >

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. WE SAID then that this action was a mistake. We still .think so, and we think the incident in India helps to prove it. These spies for Russia ought to be barred from the ‘press galleries and those who are’ Russians ought to be _expelled from the United States. It would take no new laws do it. : - We deport undesirable aliens for lesser reasons. But . iwe tolerate Russian espionage and propaganda.

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WT, TUT, IKE. That “interview” you gave Saturday, about political pressure back home forcing your resignation as NATO commander, won't wash. , You yourself created that situation when you chose be a candidate. You could have eliminated yourself ‘as a candidate. You did not. A great many Americans are glad that you did not. That's the way we feel. For-—whether you win or lose—your candidacy should be a good thing for both parties and for the country. The fact that you are available can put the whole political contest on a higher level. Anyway, since you are an aspirant for the world’s biggest and hardest job, you will be treated as one. How you conduct your campaign is your business. If you decide you: can get further by remaining silent, that is your right —just as it is the right of veters and the convention dele- © gates to judge you on that basis. :

OR IF YOU limit yourself to a few ‘“nonpolitical” . speeches, as they are called, rather than discuss issues, ‘that also is up to you. Many independent voters would like , to know your views in greater detail. But again, whéther sticking to “safe” generalities will get you more or less popularity, more or less votes, is your gamble. But you can't have it both ways. I To run for the nomination, and at the same time play the embarrassed victim of clamoring admirers and ambitious advisers, would be less than respectful to the high ‘office to which you honorably aspire. A candidate can't get away with “interviews” in which he only issues statements and then refuses to hear or answer questions. There may be occasions when that is ‘good military procedure. But it is not acceptable demo‘cratic practice for a presidential candidate. We are not advising. We are reporting. For your information, most Americans we know respect you for becoming a candidate. As’a candidate; they expect ffom you complete candor on all important issues of the campaign—in keeping with your outstanding public record.

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Pork Barrel Pickled

'N PASSING the rivers and harbors-flood control appropriation for the Army Engineers the other day, the House of Representatives: chalked up°a remarkable achiewement. . "% It defeated 24 different amendments, each offered by fadividual Congressmen and proposing to tack onto the bill j funds for projects in their own districts. ; : : This is log-rolling in'reverse. The Appropriations Com-

pent. The House made that stick. ; * That doesn’t mean the pork barrel is permanently ~~ plekled. There is still the Senate. But if every Senator will ; _ keep in mind that the Truman budget as submitted to Congress calls for a $14 billion deficit, it should encourage him

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BRITISH THINKING . . . By R. H. Shackford °

Socialists Want U. S. To Pay Th

LONDON, Apr. 14-If the United States would just continue to pay the bills, but follow British advice (preferably British Socialist advice) in world affairs, everything would be all right. : ‘ That's the thesis of a new British Socialist

Party pamphlet: published recently under the

title, “Problems of Foreign Policy.” Among fs statements; The U. 8. ganged up with Russia against Britaip In wartime conferences . . . the U, 8. falled to carry its share of the burden immediately after the war , , . until Korea, British Socialists “succeeded” in guiding the U. 8. . ..

" since Korea, America is refusing to follow Brit-

Ish advice , .- the United Btates must accept major responsibilities in the Middle East and Southern Asia . . . there is danger that the U. 8. wants to “sink badk in comfort” and leave Britain facing Boviet expansion and German domination alone . . . *. * 0

THE pamphlet's objective is to form a basis of discussion among rank-and-file Socialists and to guide the party's national executive committee in foreign policy matters. : Americans are certain to resent many state-

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Sen. Capehart’s A Bit Confused

WASHINGTON, Apr. 14— Two days running last week the senior Senator from Indiana, Republican Homer E. Capehart, jumped into the Senate debate to inquire what it was all about,

Fach time he was told, but never seemed

satisfied. The Record gives the Capehart collo~ quy last Thursday as follows: * Mr. Capehart--“Mr. President, I do not know just what the controversy is about" The Vice President ~'It is about the Chair's reference of the President's message to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.” Mr, Capehart — “1 knew. that, Mr. Presfdent, but I did net know why the President sent the message to Congress in the first place. He does not tell us anything that we could not have read in the newspapers , , .)” Sen. Capehart thén read excerpts from the message to prove his point that it was in the papers, sald he didn’t care what committee it was assigned to and closed by warning against “nationalization.” The message dealt with the steel controversy. It informed Congress of the steel plant's seizure by the government and put it up to them to outlaw such procedure—if they cared to do 50.

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Next day Sen, Capehart marched into the fray again, He wanted to know why the Senate committee investigating Sen. William Benton's (D. Conn.) ouster charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) asked to be discharged, but urged that they not be. “Why does not the committee perform its function and duty under the resolution and submit some kind of a repert to the Senate, in stead of trying to evade its responsibilities?” Sen. Capehart inquired. “I do not quite understand.” he concluded. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R. IIL), a newly appointed member of the subcommittee, ex-

plained that there still is work to be done and

‘continuing the committee was in the nature of a vote of confidence. Sen, Capehart was back on his feet asking Sen. Dirkson whether you voted “yea” or “may” if you wanted the committee continued.

Hoosier Fog

“HOW ARE we to vote?” Sen. Capehart inquired. : Mr. Dirksen—*“I shall try and dispel the fog from the mind of my good Hoosier friend if he will have patience for a moment. This is a test. The language of the resolution is ‘It being understood that the following motion (meaning the resolving clause) is made solely for this test and that the adoption of the resolution is opposed by the members on whose behalf it is submitted'.” Mr. Capehart— What could be more silly than such words as that in a resolution such as this? How silly can we become in the United States “Menate? Who is fooling whom, and why?” > Mr. Dirksen—“I do not want to put it that way.” Mr. Capehart—"I believe that some Senator ought to make a motion to adjourn, so that Senators may come to their senses, instead of fooling around with such silly words as that.”

Hoosier Confusion

MR. DIRKSEN —“I shall try and dispel the confusion of my friend from Indiana, because I do not want him to vote wrong. “This is & test on integrity and on jurisdietion. The Resolution is to discharge the Committee on Rules and Administration, but the Committee on Rules and Administration does not want to be discharged. It wants to be continued. So the Senator should vote ‘nay.’ “The junior Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. McCarthy), who is the focal point of interest here, would also vote ‘nay’ because he said so a while ago, and he said so more than 18 days ago in a letter to the very distinguished Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration. (Sen. Carl Hayden, D. Ariz.) “So, brethren, dwell together in unity for once. This ought to be a unf¥nimous vote.” ‘ ’

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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others—such as the fact that $39 billion has been put up by the U, 8, for foreign aid since the war. ; . * 5 o THIS official Party says in part; : “The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in January, 1951, probably was the maJor factor in preventing Korea from leading to a third world war.” (There was no further explanation of this statement), “In 1950, the Labor Party made a bold new to meet this (world economic) problem with a world plan for mutual aid . . . but the major problem cannot be confronted until America agrees to play a full part in such a plan.” (Socialists always have insisted the U, 8, should finance a grandiose point four program). “One of the Jabor government's greatest claims to gratitude is that it stood up steadfastly against Soviet expansion in the dificult years immediately following the war, when America was unwilling to take her share of the burden.” (During 1945-46, Britain got $3 billion in loans from the U. 8.). “The Labor government succeeded in guid-

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ing America toward better understanding of her interests and responsibilities abroad.. From “America’s intervention in Greece in 1947, up to

the outbreak of war in Korea in 1950, America’s

policy in Europe and elsewhere was very similar to that of Britain.” (It wasn't mentioned that U. 8. “intervention” in Greece was because the British Socialist government threw in the sponge there.) “But from the outbreak of the Korean War onward, America showed a growing tendency to act contrary to British advice, particularly in Asia. * : “Many of the Labor Party's most important objectives in world affairs depend on America assuming, not fewer responsibilities than she has already, but more, The whole world would benefit if America accepted great responsibilities for security and prosperity in the Middle East and SBouthern Asia.

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ing Influence. . . . If all American policy were as enlightened in its conception and execution

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SURPLUS? . . . By James Daniel U. S. Imports European Spuds—

WASHINGTON, Apr, 14—The U. 8. which 16 months ago couldn't give away its surplus potatoes, is now importing potatoes from Eu rope. A cargo of 4000 tons of Spanish-grown potatoes—worth $330,000 wholesale—has just been unioaded in New York.

Two more cargoes are expected hefore the new crop of U, 8. potatoes drives down the market price. Some of the Spanish spuds are golden yellow inside. Potato men say only Americans are exclusively devoted to white potatoes, Europeans take theirs in technicolor. Nobody in Washington seems to remember when the last sack of potatoes was received from Europe. ?

Surplus Potatoes

BEFORE 1951, there would have heen no place to put one. The government's price support program was piling up small mountains of surplus potatoes each year. Some were sold for starch or alcohol making. Many were fed to animals. Raw potatoes won't keep beyond the next spring. They spoil. Europeans would not take them, even as a gift. Shipping costs were too high. Nor could most European countries have shipped us potatoes if we had wanted ‘them. Over, the years the U. 8. has quarantined virtually all of Western Europe's potatoes because of pests and diseases. Somehow, the nests overlooked Spain. Recently, a vegetable broker in New York formed a syndicate te import Spanish potatoes. The Spanish government certified the potatoes were disease-free. U. 8. quarantine men in New York confirmed

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‘WASHINGTON, Apr. 14 — Maybe I'm too impatient, but I'd be pleased if the gents of science put, up, or shut up. They're always sneaking quick looks into their Pandora’s box at the wonders they have discovered, but somehow the same old models keep showing up on the shelves. What are they waiting for? Twice now in the last few years I've been inveigled into writing pieces about train X, the articulated wonder on

wheels that rides like a cloud C per hour. Where is it?

patents on sedans with engines ) in the rear. These were the wonder jobs, skidpboof, perfectly balanced, and more efficient than any cars ever built. I'd still like to. see one. ‘Once I had a look at an experimental radio set with printed circuits. No ‘wires, Doggonedest thing in its line I ever saw. The chassis was . made of porcelain and the elecon it

that federal graders checked them _all out as U. 8. No. 1, Size A. Shoppers in New York and New Jersey will soon be buying them. Although imports from Europe are unusual the U. 8. does admit potatoes: from this hemisphere. Some early potatoes come in each year from Cuba and the Bahamas, for the luxury trade. And during the government potato price support era, Canadian growers shipped train loads of their potatoes here. Partly, they were getting a free ride on the U. 8. support program. But also they were helping meet a shortage of high quality Americangrown potatoes in the stores, occasioned by the fact that the government's rules diverted good U. 8. potatoes to the dumps while leaving culls for the customers,

Two Key Points OFFICIALS here make two points about the Spanish imports: ONE--The deal was. entirely commercial— they want no credit for arranging it and no blame from American growers whose prices may have been hurt. Actually, the import tonnage is insignificgnt compared with total American consumption. : TWO-—The imports show what can happen when price supports are dropped. After the government stopped guaranteeing potato farmers against loss, many growers switched to other still-supported crops. Currently, agriculture men figure the American consumer is paying more for his potatoes and fewer than in 1950, last year of supports—even counting his taxes, which helped buy and dispose of surpluses. But by 1953, the free market is expected to correct itself. $

PANDORA'S BOX . .. By Frederick C. Othman

> Scientists Should Put Up or Shut Up

watches and, with subminiature tubes, about the size of a hotel bar of seap.- The boys keep talking about this at in-

tervals, but now they mention it: in connection with the transistor, This is a metallic blob no bigger than a peanut which does away with the vacuum tube. Try to buy one in a department store and the clerk won't know what youre talking about. . Well do I remember the mighty electric tompany, one of the world's higgest, which I thought I ought to do a story about its nt of the television set that shines its : pictures on the wall like a movie.

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All there was to thig was a small lamp on top of a me-dium-sizéd box. You turned the lens toward the wall in a darkened room, snap the switch, and there was Milton Berle, almost life-size. Somehow I never did get around to such a dispatch and, from the way things still look < Inc the TV shoppes, this was just as

In the future (how distant I do not know) is the alectronic air conditioner. pumps, motors, coils, nor gas under pressure. The that when the electricity ‘hits the widgets in the little Black widget, it gets cold. How it " don’t ‘rightly know, but the man who explained it

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as the Marshall Plan, we should have little to fear.. But recent developments have created suspicion of American good sense. ; “ . ., On speedy rearmament, Britain and Western Europe sometimes have found them. selves together in resisting American demands, ... America has been very unwilling to accept any permanent military integration with Western Furope, although she has consistently pressed Western Europe countries to form a closely integrated European army among themselves , , . > & @

“THERE is no doubt that American support for European union springs partly from the belief that a united Europe would form a cordon sanitaire, or Maginot line, behind which America could sink back in comfort. “If Britain once took the step of committing herself permanently on the continent of Europe without America, by joining the European army for instance, those Americans who faver with. drawing their troops would be tly encour. aged. Britain then might be left alone to face the double dangers of Soviet expansion and German domination.”

Hoosier Forum

“| de not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire !

‘A Wonderful Country’

MR. EDITOR: We can’t say it or think it often enough, this is indeed a wonderful country, Don't let ‘sm kid you, it is still a free country; how free we do not even in a small part appreciate, Think, my friends, what would happen to a citizen of Russia if he should dare to lift even a slightly critical pen against Stalin, or voice the ideas which one writer dared venture in the Saturday Evening Post relative to merits or demerits of President Truman (and he is our President, remember?) = As yet there has been no word of the Post writer being beheaded, shot at sunrise, or hur. ried off to Alcatraz. And notice all the other vicious attacking of President Truman and others in government. Brother, such free thinkers if they speak truth or untruth, and spoke thus in Russia of Stalin and his favorites, just where do you think they would end up? Then consider the charming new Queen of England. I'll bet Britain with her so-called freedoms would hurry any citizen into quietude who loudly derided the fair Queen. No one wrote so boldly of the Queen’s father as has been written and voiced about the Presidents of the United States. Thank God we are free people. Never lef anyene brow-beat you into thinking differently, We raise cain about Truman’s choice of language sometimes, but meditate on this, Stalin can tell his citizens anything he wants to, and they can’t talk back, or they'd better not if they value life. Our President knows he has faults, but he has virtues too, and he appreciates as much as we should this freedom, that we exercise in bold and often reckless fashion, Let us keep some dignity in government, let us not become a people misled by denouncements, by evil, and all manner of improper stealing, and bartering the good names of each other. Let us weigh our thinking, be just, and thie goes for all workars in government, newspaper publishers, and writers, nfanagers of radio stations and announcers. —Vivian Wooten Pierson, Greenfield.

‘Impressive Article’ MR. EDITOR: . Kermit McFarland’s article in The Times, Apr. 8 about President Truman was most impressive. Mr. Truman had no aid for Chiang Kai-shek, back when I felt the Reds could have easily been stopped in China. I often wondered, being deprivéd of time to search into the policies of Chiang Kai-shek, why he was put down; why Madam Chiang’s visit to the White House pleading for financial aid was so futile. Yet, ever since the Reds got their stronghold in China, President Truman opened the lid to the U. 8. Treasury and poured millions of dollars in aid to any country claiming to fight the Reds. Or was it to make the dollars more easily accessible to the Reds, since they rob their prey of everything from dollars to clothing? They were allowed to become strong before any restraint was placed on them, restraint acquired through spilled blood. : That's only one error on Mr. Truman's behalf. Gen. MacArthur's knowledge of how the Reds had to be dealt with was far greater than that of Harry Truman, so to make history for Harry Truman, he fired MacArthur. Has our President actually ever had duty ta his country in mind, or was it duty tn himself? Facts and duty have been disregarded, suspense and fraud have taken over in Washington, : Mr. Truman did our nation a great good when he decided: not to run; now it’s our duty as voters to examine every candidate regardless of political party and get a candidate elected who will economize to save us from financial doom and ruin. The fraud in our capital should open the eyes of all citizens, awaken them to duty at the polls this fall; like all things worthwhile, it won't be easily decided.

-A Citizen, City,

What Others Say—

GOD Himself (after World War II) couldn't have done a good job of disposing of overseas surplus war property. —Glenn A. Wolfe, deputy U. 8. German high commissidner. : ¢ 4 9» WASHINGTON streets would look like they were decorated with bunches of bananas.—Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) on suggestion .that government cars be painted yellow.

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to me said it was a perfectly logical system. And also inexpensive, x He was the chief engineer of a leading electronics outfit. Then there's the turbine that burns coal dust. This is said to be the most efficient producer of power there is, with the possible exception of an atom bomb. So I put this pare ticular mystery up to an engineer at the Bureau of Mihes, He said the scientists still were stumped by an age-old problem. Their coal-dust turbine works fine except for one

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ent e come finally to magnesium, the wonder. metal. One chemical outfit raised hob here because the government wouldn't let it use magnesium for hotcake griddles. That was during the days of the OPA, Today magnesium are legal, but try to buy one. Occasionally, magnesium stepladders are advertised and magnesium wheelbarrows, Once I had a magnesium lawne mower, but it soon crumpled,

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Feins Urge Pay

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