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Telephone PL aza 5351 Give Light and the People Will Fina Ther Own Way

Nunan Won't Talk JOSEPH D. NUNAN of Brooklyn is under investigation by a House committee because he is a former Internal Revenue Commissioner who since has been representing private clients in proceedings before the tax bureau. The committee is trying to uncover the facts about $176,000 in income Mr. Nunan did not report on his tax returns. During part of the period involved in these returns, Mr. Nunan held the top tax-collecting job in the government. : Appearing before the King Committee, Mr. Nunan declined to answer questions about this income. That is his privilege. ] But he referred to the investigation as an “inquisition” and claimed the committee purposely was trying to do him “irreparable and unjustifiable harm.” : As a citizen, Mr, Nunan has a right to defend himself

. against charges—when and if any are made. But as a public

official, he held a public trust. And that public trust obli-

__gates him to provide the House Committee with whatever

information it may need in cleaning up the scandals which have beset the Internal Revenue Bureau—some of them dating through the time Mr. Nunan was boss. He is not fulfilling that responsibility by merely assum-

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Vandenberg's Papers

S MUCH as anything else, the book containing the private papers of the late Sen. Vandenberg, recently published, is the story of how foreign policy has been made in the Truman Administration, and how it ought to be made. The intimate writings of the fate Senator show conclusively not only the sincerity and fortitude of Mr. Vandenberg—both as to his convictions and his uncertainties—but an amazing objectivity. Sen. Vandenberg, in his lifetime, was known as the champion of the “bi-partisan” foreign policy. But his papers show fully that American foreign policy was “bi-partisan” only part of the way and part of the time. And that it was “bi-partisan” when it was largely because of the Senator's own efforts. » It was “bi-partisan,” for instance, when it was the kind of policy which established the United Nations and set up the so-called Truman Doctrine for special anti-Communist aid to Greece and Turkey. It was decidedly not “bi-partisan” in the Far East, where U. 8. policy so long has been no

‘policy at all.

THE VANDENBERG diary puts a finger on the basic reason for the contradictory and indecisive policies which have been characteristic of the Truman Administration when it speaks of the President's penchant for doing “so many impetuous things ‘off the cuff’ ” and of the “White

House habit of going off ‘half-cocked’.” (Re-exemplified by

the recent Stalin “ultimatum” fiasco.)

Sen. Vandenberg applauded Mr. Truman's intervention

“in Korea as a “courageous and indispensable thing.” But he

summed up the conflict in Administration policies in a 1950 tter to a constituent which said: , “America took positive action against Communist aggression in Western Europe, Greece and Turkey; and our ‘warning to aggressors has thus far succeeded in peacefully holding them at bay. For some unaccountable reason, we pursued an opposite course in the Far East—and particularly in Korea—where the Administration virtually notified

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know more about foreign policy over a longer period than

any other American of his time and whose patriotism and objectivity were the hallmarks of his statesmanship.

Dove On a Gun

Moscow celebrated May Day with a great “peace”

celebration.

and “Peace for the Whole World,” and “Stalin is Peace.” Top spectator was Stalin himself, resplendent in a military uniform. Main feature of the celebration was a parade of Russia's armored might.

Hint’ ; IN England, they're trying to decide whether advertising ‘shall be permitted on radio and television offerings of the British Broadcasting Corp. Such broadcasts now are free of commercials. i . This one is for the British alone to settle. We pass on only an observation which our librarian traces as far back as 300 B. C.: 7 2 “When Heaven sends down calamities it is possible to escape them. When we occasion our own calamities, it is not possible any longer to live.”

Virus Dynamite MEDICAL scientists now say that the notorious virus X, 7 which laid low so many citizens in the recent get-sick season, really is not one disease—but an assortment of 30. Any one who has suffered through a violent attack of this assortment, and been set back by recurrences after he thought he was well again, knows a mere 30 diseases couldn't possibly be so virulent. Must be at least 3000.

He's Our President SL : FOURTHS of America’s voters elected Harry

Truman in 1948—the 24 million who voted for him and

the 48 million who did not go to the polls.

‘remember that you also use it in your eyes.

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SOVIET TIMETABLE . . . By Richard Starnes

Ex-Red Agent Says Russian Con

© WASHINGTON, May 6—The “tochki” in this country have done their, work well and already the Soviet Union has won the first big objective in its plan to communize the world. “Tochki” is the Russian word to describ Soviet agents and fellow travelers in foreign countries. A literal translation would be ‘“‘point” or “spearhead.” The story of the tochki comes from a man who, before the war, had a lot to do with directing them from Moscow, He is Igor Bogolepov, at 48 a tall, rugged veteran of the Spanish elvil war, the siege of Leningrad and the infinitely more deadly intrigues in the Foreign Office of the USSR. . Mr. Bogolepov is one of the three highest ranking Soviet officials who have sought sanctuary in the Western world, He is the only one actively working for this country. . In 1923, Igor Bogolepov, then 19, was graduated from the University of Petrograd (now Leningrad). He had studied for the foreign service, He worked in the USSR Foreign Office until 1937, when he was sent to Spain as a Colonel with the Soviet troops who fought for the Loyalists in ie a way, :

ABRUPTLY he was recalled from Spain and

thrown into Moscow's Lublanka Prison. He was charged with being a fascist agent of

* Franco and an agent of the Trotskyite com-

munists. Seven months later he was released, restored to his rank in the Red Army and given back his job in the Foreign Office. He still doesn’t. know why he was jailed and can only speculate on why he was released. “They freefi the big wheels (one general and one marshal had been arrested with him) and

PROMOTIONS. ..By A. M. Cosgrove Regulars

Vs. Reserves

WASHINGTON, May 6--Lt. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe conceded today fhaf “a rhubarb” has developed” over whether Army Reserve officers should be able to keep promotions they've earned during the Korean War. This issue is one of several which have fanned the smoldering resentment of many Reservists in the past two years. Gen. McAuliffe 1s best known far his one word message—‘‘Nuts!”—to the German commander demanding his surrender at beseiged Bastogne during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, Today, he is the Army's assistant chief of staff for personnel. He swings a lot of weight in such matters as Army promotions. “You take a captain in the Reserves who's recalled to active duty, sent to Korea and comes back a lieutenant colonel and still a young man,” he said. This man should not return to civilian life as a lieutenant colonel in the Organized Reserve Corps, the General contended.

Promotion Argument GEN. McAULIFFE noted that this brought up another current argument between Reserves and Regulars—the question of whether recalled Reserve and National Guard officers have gotten their share of promotions since Korea. “From the start of the Korean war to Apr. 17 of this year,” Gen. McAuliffe said, “promotions break down this way for the entire Army— ' “Regular Army promotions—11,345, “Non-Regular Army promotions—22,728. “I think that helps answer such contentions.” He said, however, that Reserve and National Guard leaders with whom he has conferred recently don't agree with him on all issues. “We (he and his staff) think they are too demanding,” he said. Gen. McAuliffe said that letting recalled reservists keep their temporary promotions when they leave active duty would make an already top-heavy Reserve more so.

Recalls War Il Custom AT THE END of World War II, he recalled, the Army not only let its wartime officers take their temporary ranks into the Reserves, but also gave one-grade promotions to mamy when they left the service. This, he said, resulted in a Reserve Corps with too many chiefs and not enough Indians. He wants to avoid making that situation worse. “And,” he said, “our Regulars don’t get to keep their Army of the United States (temporary) grades indefinitely. I say the Reserves

shouldn't iy Gen. McAuliffe sald that since the Korean War began, Reservists in uniform have outnumbered Regulars about three-to-one. His figures show that non-Regular promotions only outnumber Regular promotions two-to-one. . ; He agreed further that the non-Regular promotions include what some call the “professional Reservists”—officers who, although not accepted for the Regular Army, have stayed on active duty for years as Reservists. But, Gen. McAuliffe said, he believes the promotion ratio has been fair.

Not Enough Time A LARGE NUMBER of recalled Reservists and National Guardsmen had spent very little timeless than a year—on active duty in the rank which they held when pulled back into the Army, he said. Regulations say that, with some exceptions, an officer has to spend a certain amount of time on active duty in one rank before he can be promoted, and most recalled Reserve officers just don’t qualify for that reason, he added. Reserve leaders complain that through these regulations the Regular Army gives an officer no credit at all for “time in grade” during periods when he is not on active duty but may, nonetheless, be spending one or two nights a week drilling with the Reserves. In other words, the Reserves point out, nothing a man does in civilian life qualifies -him for promotion when he is recalled by the Army.

SIDE GLANCES

so, I suppose, they thought they should free me.” : va Back in the Foreign Office, Mr. Bogoléepov became intimately associated with the Soviet end of the work of the fellow travelers. At about that time, the doubt which long had’ been gnawing his mind about communism crystalized nie 4 positive distaste for the Soviet Government. Bogolepov now says: “I felt that Russia and the Russian - people were under a foreign occupation.” : Sd Bb HE STAYED in the Foreign Office until Germany attacked Russia,, Mr. Bogolepov said. Recalled to the Red Army, he was captured by the Germans. When Germany fell he sugceeded in falling into the hands of American troops. Until a few weeks ago, he stayed in Germany and France. Mr. Bogolepov insists that the Soviet pro-

Right Back Where We Started From

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gram for world conquest is on schedule, In the early 20's, he says, Russia’s Communist Party abruptly changed its philosophy of world révolution. The “pure” Marxian theory had been one of révolt from inside. The Soviet leaders decided they must switch to aiding revolution from outside, : L Red infiltration, with which Mr. Bogolepov was closely associated, was one part of the new Soviet program. : By the time World War II started, the tochkl in this country numbered more than 5000, Mr. Bogolepov said. ‘Columbia, Harvard, yale, Stanford and the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) were the most important places where the ideological fifth' column had its tochki,” he said. In testimony before the Senate Cemmigtee on Internal Security, Mr. Bogolepov testified the IPR was a two-way street, importing Russian

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NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson Candidates’ Labor Views Varied

WASHINGTON, May 6. (NEA)—What the various presidential candidates would do with the steel situation if this unwanted baby was in their laps makes a good subject for political speculation. It provides an opportunity for comparison of records and policies on labor issues.

There are pretty fuzzy statements, or no statements at all, from some of the candidates. Others are very definite. President Truman of course vetoed the Taft-Hartley act and did not use it when the steel strike first came to a head on Apr. 8. Instead, he seized the industry to prevent a strike. Sen. Robert A. Taft, co-author of the TaftHartley law, took the stand that the seizure was unconstitutional. This was the view that Federal Judge Pine sustained. Sen. Taft still supports his law, though he has expressed willingness to have it amended on a few.procedural matters that have been found unworkable. If the Taft-Hartley law had been applied in the steel case, President Truman would have

been required to ask the courts for an injunc-.

tion.

The President would then have had to name an inquiry board to examine. the case, If no settlement were reached within 60 days —roughly by July 1—the National Labor Relations Board would be authorized to conduct company-by-company elections on each employ-

- er's best offer.

Sen. Estes Kefauver, among the Democratic candidates, has made, his view very clear on the steel dispute. He voted against the TaftHartley law and voted to sustain President Truman’s veto. But today Senator Kefauver says he would not vote to repeal the law, though he would vote in support of a few amendments. He is against the closed shop ban and he

By Galbraith PREFER MILK . . . - = Lit-Up Congressmen Scarce as Hen'’s Teeth

WASHINGTON, May 6—Are Congressmen a gang of lushes staggering into saloons, draping themselves over the mahogany and spilling atomic secrets to Russian spies? No. A thousand times no. These gentlemen, with a few (notable exceptions, drink nothing stronger than milk. And not too much of that because they consider it fattening. Mostly they guzzle water, lukewarm. If a news camera is around, they hide the glass because no telling what their : Sonstituents might think was

election. So the sobersides in

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thinks many of the injunction provisions are unfair to the unions. On President Truman's seizure of the steel industry to prevent a strike, Senator Kefauver was also critical. He said he thought further arbitration, negotiation ‘and conciliation could have been restorted to. From Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower have come only generalities on the subject of labor. His sptech before the 1946 CIO national convention is frequently cited as expressing his sympathies for labor, but it contains nothing specific.

The Berlin correspondent of a New. York German weekly recently interviewed Ike on his domestic policy views but revealed only that the General's ire was aroused by being considered anti-labor. That gives no idea how he would handle the steel strike. International Association of Machinists’ weekly newspaper has compiled detailed labor records on most of the major candidates. It lists Gen. Eisenhower as more conservative than liberal. Sen. Richard Russell is shown to have voted for the Taft-Hartley law, voted to override the President's veto and voted against repeal and amendment of the law in 1949, Democrat Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma came to the Senate in 1948 after the Taft-Hart-ley law was passed, but he voted for its repeal in 1949. Sen. Kerr is rated pro-labow on most issues, in spite of his sponsoring the natural gas bill, -bis opposition to excess profits tax legislation and other big business views. Republican Gov. Earl Warren of California and Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois are the candidates that the: union labor crowds like best. Both have built up state records for

sponsoring social security and welfare legislation.

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By Frederick C. Othman

tricting, at the forthcoming

Congress lambasted Rep. Hall last week, almost to a man.

» » ” HE DEMANDED time to answer them. And got it. I

fortified myself with a cup of to explain.

congressional coffee (black, no sugar) and listened to every word, but I'm danged if I know for sure what Rep. Hall did say, or didn’t, in. his elbow-

little confused.

Too many fellows kept interru him indignantly to ask if he meant they, his Prignas: ad the blind stag- tics.” gers. Rep. 1 kept insisting ; that he wouldn't for the world insult the members of this

ONE EXCEPTION

‘THERE always seems to be someone . . . to take another's place . . . someone to step into - Your shoes . . . if you should slow the pace . .. ++ + the average in Your trade . . . there always is a someone else

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take back anything he said, if he did say it, in his speech. 80 Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.), the most abstemious Congressman of all, brought up a resolution ordering Rep. Hall to the bar of the House

“When he says a large number of the members got tipsy ++ +" roared Rep. Hoffman. “I' never said all members of the House are tipsy,” screamed Rep. Hall trying to crucify me and ‘drive me out of Congress.” Rep. Hoffman said he was not, either. Rep. Hall retorted: “Pure politics . , . dirty poli-

tJ » THE SPEAKER said would he kindly leave out the word, dirty? Rep. Hall said he would,

quest Plans Right On Schedule

ropaganda and 2xporting military intelligence. P a selected by Soviet leaders to first test their theory of revolution from without, “This was the use of a favorite strategy,” Mr, Bogolepov said, “attacking the capitalist world at its "veakest point.” : In Moscow, a propaganda line on China was worked out. The line had four goals: ONE—Firmly implant the idea that Chiang Kai-snek could not cope with Japan's aggrese sion. % TWO-—Emphasize that Chiang and the Chi. nese lommunists together (the “United Front”) could withstand the Japanese. THREE —S8pread the theory that the Chinese Reds were harmless “agrarian reformers.” FOUR--Sell the idea that the Chinese Reds were completely independent of the USSR. When he reached this side of the Iron Cur« tain, Mr. Bogolepov was appalled.at how well hs and his aids in Moscow had succeeded. Mr. Bogolepov does not ‘believe it is pose sible for the free world to work out a settlement with the Soviet Government. “The single way of avoiding the big war is to give the Soviets their own medicine—civil war inside Russia and China helped by the ‘West.’

SONI ng

Hoosier Forum

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

‘Not Even Names’

MR. EDITOR: You newspaper people arinoy me very much by harping around “why don’t you get out and vote in the primary.” 1 know one reason: A person knows ahsoe lutely nothing about the candidates—not even their names. i am interested in who is nominated by the Republicans as presidential candidate and I was

“pager to see the list of delegates from “this

county. One night this week the paper said the Taft and Eisenhower headquarters had lists of those delegates who favored their man. So as I favored Mr. Taft and would like to vote for the men who would support him, I went around to No. 46 N. Pennsylvania (Miss Butler) to ask

—for-a copy, but she didn’t have any, but said I

could get a list at the Republican headquarters in the Claypool. So I went over there, The information woman said they didn't have it; they were at state headquarters, but undoubtedly the county headquarters in the K, of P. Building would have it. So I went to the K. of P. Building. The girl there said they should have had them a week ago, but the committee was slow and hadn't sent them around yet, but if I would £0 to the committee's office, 137 N. Delaware, I should be able to get them. If not, as a last resort, I could go to the clerk at the Courthouse. So I went to 137 N. Delaware. There scads of women were folding bills to mail out and a harassed man said they were getting them ready. I asked if I could have a list, but he said it might take him 20 minutes to find -the ones for my precinct, but if I would come in Saturday morning he would give me one. All of this was Friday and the lists wouldn't be out until Saturday and the election is Tuesday. It doesn’t give a person any time at all to find out about a man. In fact, the vast majority would never see them. Can you see now one reason why people don’t rush down to vote in the primary? I am going down now to 137 N. Delaware to try to get a list of delegates and, believe men, if I don’t get it that ends my effort toward voting May 6. ~—M. Stewart, 843 N. Meridian, City Editor's Note: The Times published the list in full last Sunday after campaign headquarters failed to provide one.

Vote on It MR. EDITOR: What should the government do about strikes? I say that the government should keep “hands off” except to stop violence and to assist as a mediator. If laborers don’t feel that they are getting paid enough, they have a right to stop working. If their employers don’t feel that they can afford to pay more, the employers have a right to refuse to pay more. Of course, if employees stop working, employers should have the right to fire said employees if they don’t start working again after a certain length of tine. To those who say that a government “hands off” policy would be detrimental to our coune try’s welfare and especially to our boys in Korea, I say that permitting the infringement upon rights guaranteed by our Constitution would be just as much or more harmful. oe oo o IF THE OWNERS of “vital” industries. and their employees do not feel that they can accept compromises on wages and other matters and continue production for the Korean War, let them have a vote whether they would rather the United States get out of Korea now or go, themselves, to Korea to réplace our soldiers there. Those who want to continue it should, if able, be willing to fight on the battle line or work on the production line and under a noe higher-price, no-higher-wage policy. Those who don’t want to continue it, rather than to cause a long strike injurious to their own and the nation’s welfare, should be willing to seek fields of endeavor not vital to the nation’s livelihood, Then have a national referendum to deter. mine what the majority wants to do about the Korean War. If a majority of Americans wants

_ the United States to get out of Korea now, let's

get out now. Our country at peace, anyhow, would be better able to rid ourselves of cone scription and foster democratic freedom — the only atmosphere in which capital-labor ¢dntroversies can be resolved to give enduring benefit both to the individuals immediately concerned and to all of the people. —Elbert D. Jones, 2327 College Ave.

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