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Truman's Move

w. (ONE thing is sure about the new crisis in steel. : Some way must be found to get production going again. For the moment, steelrhen say, the threat is not serious, because of stockpiles. : But if the strike goes very long, it will impose a dangerous handicap on defense production and cripple the trade and commerce of many metropolitan areas, and eventually the whole nation, as ‘everyone knows. THé situation is what it is because of President Truman, more than any other factor. He shut off collective bargaining between the union and the steel companies. He ‘blocked mediation. He brought on the present plight by his unlawful seizure of the mills and his refusal to use the laws and procedures available to him for heading off a

strike.

Now, after all his devious and partisan manipulations,

he is right back where he was—with a nation-wide strike on his hands. ~.....The Supreme Court, by holding he acted without legal power in seizing the stesd mills; did “sot bidck any other

_action on his part, Mr, Truman is not helpless by any

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Fa He still can” use the Taft-Hartley Law’ which is the

most effective machinery and which was available to him

in the beginning. His only excuse for not using it is a

political one. py He can direct the Federal Mediation and Conciliation

Service to step into the case. (This agency worked on the °

steel case only about four days, because Mr. Truman’'made the mistake of injecting the bumbling Wage Stabilization Board into the picture.)

so are cumbersome and. time-consuming, «< =Rr-stil

x - in, oy = SYS " To do so, as Mr. Trupan said when he seized the steel

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* mills in April, “would bring our defense production to a halt

and throw our domestic economy into chaos.”

No Shotgun Needed

[AST year the dairy lobby persuaded Congress to write into the Defense Production Act such a severe restriction on the importation of cheese that several of our dollarshort Allies were harmed by it, even though it had ‘prac. tically no effect on the American cheese industry. It was so unreasonable that a Senate committee has recommended this “cheese amendment” be eliminated, and that U. S. cheese makers be given only the protection against foreign dumping that producers of various other

commodities have under the second War Powers Act.

However, the high-tariff movement has risen again in the person of Sen. Mundt (R. 8. D.) who on behalf of himself and Sen. Young (R. N. D.) proposes not only that the cheese amendment be renewed, but that it be expanded to include wheat and other grains. : The present cheese provision is ridiculous, because it cuts down imports of a product that is no thrgat to American industry to begin with. To extend ‘it to grains would be economic insanity. This country is exporting five times as much grain as it is importing, and has been doing so for years. We export nearly one-third of our wheat and nearly half our rice, and the little grain of all kinds that we buy comes from Canada, which is our best customer and probably our best friend. High school children know that in order for foreigners to buy things from America, they must earn the dollars by selling things to America, unless America gives them the dollars outright. Apparently Sens. Mundt and Young do not know it. In any event, this crackpot idea should be voted down decisively. The measure recommended by the Senate committee gives the cheese industry all the support it needs, and the grain producers have enough already. It should be passed. =

The German Treaty

PROMPT Senate ratification of the peace compact with West Germany is highly desirable. Until this agree‘ment has been approved by the, United States, we cannot consistently urge early action by France and Germany, . Little progress can be expected on European rearmament until ‘this agreement, and its companion, the sixnation army treaty, have been finally approved. The agreement providing for the so-called European Army does not become effective until it has been ratified by all of the six nations concerned. Thus the French, who have serious misgivings regarding German rearmament, can keep the Germans unarmed simply by refusing to ratify the treaty. That joker may nullify the whole program. But it's " there and we must try to make the best of it. The U.S. is not a party to the arms treaty as such. Consequently that issue is met formally before the Senate. But it is the heart of the whole program, and is tied in with the peace compact and an amendment to the North Atlantic Treaty, which require Senate. ratification. antees- in the North Atlantic Pact to the West German government in return for reciprocal pledges.

Secretary of State Acheson has assured the Senate

Foreign Relations Committee that “no secret or undisclosed

commitments or guarantees” were made while he was on. his

European mission that produced these agreements. _- Although this declaration is in conflict with persistent reports from Paris while the negotiations were pending, his

_ statement should relieve Congress and a succeeding admin-

istration from responsibility for any “gentlemen's agree: ments” which do not show in the record. _ In any case, all that the Senate is being asked to pass upon at this time are the two trefities putting West Ger-

many on a footing of equality among nations and joining free world's alliance against Communist : : jel

that country to the

He can use provisions in the Defense Production Act,

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SETTLED . . . By Peter Edson

Matt Is Not '56 Candidate

WASHINGTON, June 4 — The easiest question Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway had to answer during his Washington visit, between Tokyo and Paris supreme commands, was, “Are ‘you a candidaté for the presidency in 19567" He said he wasn’t interested.

Scramble Is On

AN AWFUL scramble for extra seats at the two. national party conventions has already begun by ordinary citizens. who _would like to see the political shows live, instead of by radio and TV. At Philadelphia in 1948 there were 050 guest seats. In Chicago there will be only 5000,

of admission to spread the tickets as far as possible. One ticket used to be good for all day, or a book was good for the whole convention. This time there will be a separate ticket for morning sessions, another for afternoon or night sessions each day so as to have more to pass around.

Weigh Their Words

NOW 18 the time when the words pf politicians have to be checked with extreme care. GOP National Committee Chairman Guy Gabrielson, In a Tulsa speech recently, was bemoaning the fact that high taxes caused many American young men to postpone marriage. When a young man crosses this hurdle and takes a job, said Mr. Gabrielson, “he finds that an average of 31 per cent of his pay must go to the federal government in taxes.” Two paragraphs later, Mr. Gabrielson said a’ young man earning $60 a week, married and with two children, had to pay $91 in direct taxes. A man making $100 a week, he said, had to pay 3506 in taxes, The former case figures out to a little less than 3 per cent of income paid for taxes. The Jatter is a litile under 10 -per cent. To pay 31 per cent of his income in federal taxes. the young man would have to be making rore than- $20,000 a year, which any young gal

should be willing to marry, even with Aes

going for taxes. Ike vs. McCarthy WISCONSIN politicos now figure that if Gen. Eisenhower doesn’t come clean. on whether he supports Sen. Joseph R, McCarthy, he won't

he able to campaign in the Badger state. Sen. McCarthy has criticized Gen. Eisenhower be-

cause he. wrote a letter indorsing Dr. Philip 5

Jessup of the State Department, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio has indorsed Sen. McCarthy. If. Gen. Eisenhower ducks the issue with fome broad. statement on how he believes in

The Republicans have changed their system

freedom of speech, Wisconsin. voters won't.

Kohler and other GOP leaders are backing Gen. Eisenhower. :

Historic Message

SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT'S headquarters has put- out a statement on the state-of-the-union méssage which his father, President William

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Howard Taff, submitted to Congress in 1911..

The obvious inference is that this is. the kind of message son Bob will send to Congress after he's been in the White House a couple of years. : . . The opening sentence of, Father Taft's message was, “The financial condition of the government . , . is very satisfactory... . (There is) a ‘surplus of $47,234,377.10.” Other highlights of President Taft's 1911 message: “The debt of the United States amounted to... $1,303,984,937.69. “There was a surplus of postal receipts over disbursements . . (for) the first time in 27 years. “In the Treasury Department . . . provision was made for the elimination of 134 positions. “The (Navy) building plan for this year contemplates two battleships. “There is now’before Congress a bill . to increase the efficiency and decrease the expense of the Army.” : A concluding sentence in the 1952 statement from Sen. Taft's headquarters is: ‘. . . There is nothing wrong about going backwards polit-

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Sewing It Up

SEN. ESTES KEFAUVER of Tennessee practically sewed up the Arizona Democratic delegation to Chicago by coming out early for the Central Arizona project, which would give the state more Colorado River water. Sen. Kerr also tagged along in support of that, Sens. Taft and Duff, in previous appearances, had come out against it, and so alienated the GOP delegates,

Checks in Advance

SEN. BOB KERR of Oklahoma is taking no chances in getting caught with his foot in his mouth during his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. After much urging in Phoenix, Ariz, he consented to a pressradio interview in the Press Club. But he insisted that all questions be submitted in advance and he checked them carefully before the interview started.

Hoosier Forum

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

History and Men

MR. EDITOR: History is a narrative of past events. The events themselves do not become history until they are known well enotigh to be understood by a great many people. For instance, this government has been honeycombed with €ommunists' and seething with corruption for 20 years. It was not history until recently because a few of us that believed it were berated as lars when we mentioned it. Likewise, the infamy. of Mr. Roosevelt taking “us into war and the rape of Pearl Harbor is not history because but few people know the truth. History records it as a sneak attack by the Japs which most Americans still believe. ‘The Holy Bible is probably the most truthful * historical document that was ever written, Nevertheless, in our a St. James verdion; several chapters and books were omitted because it was believed’the people should not read them. I happen to have a book with the phrts that were omitted. It is.not a part-of. history, however, because few people know about it and if any preacher read it in a pulpit he would become an outcast. Z Incidentally, the Bible speaks of men living more than 1 years, which is also the truth because at one time every nation had a different system of computing time. I mention these things because of a letter in the Forum which states that I say in one letter that history is bunk and then quote history in another. Actually, every letter I have ever had published in the Forum is the truth

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Actress Hits Spotlights With Wig Slicked Down by Bear Grease

‘WASHINGTON, June 4—Let’s skip the lawgivers today and consider something interesting.’ like the -problems of a. great, hig bee-yewtiful

will see in about one minute:

They're enough to-makewa female's scalp ctor FATT 1g fo hardly thé word, as vet

Way back in the fall of 1949, Miss Carol

Channing, a tall young woman with eyes the size and color of severnrballs (a purplish brown, in case you're not a pool player), ordered in a beauty parlor de luxe a peroxide rinse. That made her the doggonedest blond there ever was.

She then opened in the musical comedy,

“Gentlemen Prefer Blonds.” This would have been a so-so show, except for Miss Channing singing in a little-girl voicé (with an occasional touch of baritone) about how diamonds are a girl's best friend. She made the proceedings a smash hit and herself one of Broadway's top stars. : - For almost a year she performed nightly in New York; her days she spent having her pic-

- ‘ture taken for all the magazines and news-

papers; between interviews she repaired to the beauty salon. The trouble was she was a healthy girl, Her hair grew fast and it also grew brown.

Hits Blonding Bottle

LAST SEPTEMBER the company went on . the road, playing in almost every town of any . size in the country. America’s best-known hlond

continued to hit the blonding bottle. Some of -

the beauty parlors in the byways did an excellent job. Some others didn’t. Sometimes there was no hairdresser handy. Miss Channing then applied the bleach herself. Gradually her hair began to feel like an autumnal field of straw. It became stiff and also brittle. Greasy unguents helped a little. Eventually she got to Philadelphia. That was a couple of weeks ago. Miss Channing hauled out the bleach bottle for, as it developed, the last time. Some of her hair merely evaporated, even as she watched in the mirror. More of it broke off in her hand when she touched her head.

She blamed not the peroxide jug, but Philadelphia's water, The management had no time to debate. It rushed out fora wig. gq - CK varber gave Mise Cx crew halrcni, HKe \issell Nypé's, and for the rest of her-éngage-

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locks were phony. own hair grow. -.

A Special Occasion

. SO SHE arrived finally in Washington for the opening night at the National Theater, with all the local bigwigs and brass hats out front. Kind of a special occasion. The wig she’d sent out to be cleaned and curled for the occasion. A messenger brought it back in a large package, like a hat box, about 30 minutes before cdrtain time, She started to put it on, but it seemed tight. She called for help, put no amount of tugging could get this hairpiece on Miss Channing's noggin. The blamed thing had shrunk. It fitted her like a derby hat. What to. do? : : It pained her to look in the mirror again because what she saw was hair one inch long, the bottom half dark brown, the top a kind of chemical yellow, Time was a-wasting, too. She slicked this two-colored hair down with bear grease. Then she sprinkled on it some white chalk, which she borrowed from a gent in the cast who plays an old, gray-haired man, Then she did her show. ‘ 3 . The result was a hairdress such as nobody ever had seen before. It had silvery highlights and if the goo began to drip a little during her more energetic numbers, nobody noticed it. After the performance she washed out the chalk and the axle grease. While so doing she “told her harrowing tale to my bride, who was aghast and also sympathetic. Mrs. O. said if IT wrote a word about the ordeal of the blond trying to stay that way, I was no gent. I said news is where you find it and Miss Channing observed sadly (averting her eyes from the mirror) that when next she visited Philadelphia, she intended to take her: own water,

Fair "enough. She let her

PLAYS HARD TO GET . . . By Ludwell Denny

France Wants Gls in Europe

WASHINGTON, June 4 - Senate ratification of the West German treaty and the defense pact depends on terms which may defeat ratification by France and some others. If no secret or additional American obligations are involved, the Senate will approve these signed agreements. But unless there are American commitments which go beyond the texts. French approval will be hard to get.’ Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who testified before a closed joint- session of the Senate and House committees, was repeatedly asked whether he had made any secret commitments in connec tion with these documents. He said he had not.

YET THE Paris cabinet is quite frank in seeking whole flock of extra American assurances as the price of ratification—and the French legislature is even more demanding. Specifically the cabinet wants Washington to promise that the U. S. will—

Keep American military forces in Germany and Europe indefinitely. >

Inérease American financial

sand milftary aid, to French

because I do not write a letter without knowing :

‘the facts. However, I am usually berated because the things I write are not part of history but have usually been omitted. Too many of the men who make history do not want the people to know the truth and the historians too often” obligingly feel that what the people don’t know won't hurt them. That is why 20 many heels in politics have been given a build-up as great men, . Sour, 0, =O. DC, Terre Haute.

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Indo-China. Sin Refrain from American or United Nations interference in France's disputes with her ree bellious North African colonies, Give large defense contracts to French nfhnufacturers. Although the French contend all of these matters are closely bound up with the German. issue, our Senate cannot see it that way. . Apart from the minority opposed to the pacts as such, the. prevailing attitude seems to be favorable to, the two agreements, provided there are no strings. Among the series of interlocking ' European pacts signed last week, only two require American ratification. One is the peace treaty or _ contract with "West Germany.

“The other is an amendment to

the North Atlantic Pact, ex.

“tending its mutual guarantees “to the

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ropean defense community (“European Army’) of which West Germany will be a member. rn Although the North Atlantic Alliance makes an attack on one member an attack on all, it does not specify the kind of aid to be provided. That is far cry from promising to keep

" American divisions in Europe

indefinitely, as France desires. » on ”

INDEED, Congress is voting present military aid for France and others in the hope that resulting French and other divigions can replace American

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troops in Germany within a reasonabie time. The other French requests should be handled entirely separately. in congressional opinion. The amount and speed of American afd to Indo-China and of contracts for French manufacturers should depend on many factors, including American priorities and French performance. “There is a growing feeling that the United Nations will have to hear the North African nationalists’ complaints, unless France can stabilize that dangerous situation soon.

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\STRETCH OUT" . .. By Jim 6: Lucas Defense Delay Draws Fire

WASHINGTON, June 4—President Truman— with the ‘acquiescence of his top military advisers—has decided we can wait at least three more years before being ready to defend our-

selves, Soon after the Korean War began, we started °

.an-airpower buildup to have a 143-wing Air

Force by the end of 1952. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, in support of this, testified that 1952 was “the year of decision.” After. that, war might come at any moment, they said, - : Of these 143 wings, 126 were to be combat wings and 17 to be transport or troop carrier

wings. (A fighter wing has 75 planes; a light bomber wing. 48; a medium bomber wing, 45; a heavy bomber (B-36) wing, 30.) Air Secre-

tary Thomas K. Pinletter disclosed that eight

additional troop carrier attack on “assault transport” wings would be formed, making a total of 151. This year, however, Mr. Truman decided to “stretch out” the defense program. Goals for this year were delayed until 1955 and 1956. Mr. Truman said 1954—not 1952—would be the crucial year, Drawing on information from unrevealed sources, he hinted broadly that the international situation was considérably improved. Thus, it was said, we could afford to take longer.

Lovett Critical

THIS stretch-out was described by Defense Secretary Robert &ovett recently as ‘the minimum fire insurance this ‘country can gafely carry at this time. In fact, I think it is below

* the safe level.”

.. However, the House of Representatives, has imposed a further $46-billion defense spending

“limit. That, the Pentagon says, may delay our

goals until 1957. :

Mr. Truman calls his stretch-ott a Ycaleulated risk.” The Joint Chiefs*of Staff bitterly opposed it in private. At Mr. Truman's direction, the joint chiefs caused their minutes to show ‘that the Pradidents-ds Commander in Chief-— took full responsibility. : What Mr. Truman -ezl#’ sa cilculated risk ix referred to by Gen. Carl Spaatz., former Chief of the Air Staff, as an “inexcusable risk.” Elder statésman Bernard Baruch doesn’t think it was even calculated.

“Is it really calculated?” he demanded before the Senate Preparedness Investigating Committee. “By whom? By the joint chiefs? If we acted on the basis of their expressed judgment, the hudget shoiild have ‘called for~intensifying, rather than relaxing, our defense effort, Far from slowing down, our security requires that we step up our defenses,” :

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MR. BARUCH'S testimony was a scathing indictment of the. nation's military leadership, He deplored the lavish tise of the phrase, ‘calculated risk.”

“Clearly,” he said, “it is intende® to give the

impression of a group of planners, carelully

listing all the dangers, including evaluation of the enemy's preparations and what our foreign commitments may lead to. Against that, our planners presumably weigh what would have to be done militarily to counter those risks and what such action would cost in terms of available resources. After full consideration, a balance is struck between the risks we are willing to take and the cost of surmounting (them).

“But that is not how things have operated. We have cut down our defenses even though the risks remained unchanged. at best. . . . If we were operating on a basis of ‘calculated risk,’ why wasn't our defense program quickened when our calculations changed, as they must have, with the explosion of the atomic bomb in Russia?

“What were the calculations behind the slowdown of our defense timetable early this year? Was it assumed we would have a Korean truce by this time? Was the mounting tension in Germany foreseen? Was trouble expected on any other front? Were all these things part of that ‘calculated risk'?”

No Long-Range Plan

MR. BARUCH said Russia has a long-range plan, but we haven't. The Pentagon, he said, wants to give the impression the National Security Council has one. He scoffed at the idea. He said its members have no time to devote to such a task.

What is our aircraft production picture today? What has the slowdown done to it? When the Korean War started, we were producing 215 military planes a month. Today, we produce. 650 monthly. We. expect {0

~ turn out 7500 planes this year, compared with

5000 in: 1951 and 3000 in 1950.

. Originally, we “expected to produce 2400 military planes monthly by the end of this year, But bottlenecks forced us to revise those figures downward; the second goal was 1800 planes monthly by September, 1953. Under the stretch-out, that figure is eut to 1250 planes per month—15 months from today. Peak production will not be reached until early 1954. Mr. Baruch. said he has protested the slowdown. He recalled that he had asked:

“Where in the world has-the risk of ag-

gression been sufficiently reduced to justify

such a letup?” He got no answer.

‘Normal Plateau’

DEFENSE leaders say the stretch-out will provide a steady flow of defense production which can continue indefinitely. They refer to it as a “normal plateau.”

“We should not be lulled by assurances that, this new productive capacity will be availahle on short notice,” Mr. Baruch warned. “How many months does ‘short notice’ mean? There mus{ never-be a last plane; cartridge or gun.” The House limitation on defense spending will delay readiness even more. Mr. Baruch said it must be lifted. @

One of the worst features of coasting is its effect on the pyblic and our Allies. Mr: Baruch said we have invited other free nations to slow down and they have. H&isaid we must never lose the ‘sense of destiny we felt on June 26, 1950. after the North Koreans launched fheir ‘But -there is evidehce that this has happened. he. said. . he ’ Air Force Magazine in its latest fssue warned: Ta “In our air power stretch-out, we are losing our greatest asset—the sense of urgency.”

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