Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1952 — Page 10

The Indianapolis Times

= ~P AGE 10 Monday, June 30, 1952

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Bartering Away Lives : NOUGH DETAILS of the secret American-British agreements regarding the conduct of the Korean War have come to light to demand an agreement now to end all such agreements. If Secretary of State Acheson has entered into a new appeasement arrangement in London, it should be repudiated on his return. War strategy and tactics should be left to the military men who are doing the fighting—and who are responsible for conserving American lives. Every air raid cannot be subject to advance debate in the British Parliament, the attitude of some of our British critics notwithstanding. Former British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison— who says he was a party to the original agreement—claims the air attacks on the Yalu River power plants violated an understanding that ‘certain measures” were to be taken in Korea only in “certain circumstances. These circumstances were, he said: (1) That the truce talks had broken down and, (2) That serious large-scale military operations had been resumed. Neither of these circumstances obtains today, he asserts. That, however, is a matter of opinion and point of view.

” IF THE truce talks have not “broken down,” they are making no headway and have reached a virtual stalemate. The 32,000 4llied casualties while the truce talks have been going on roflect rather important operations during that ‘time. Americans ‘who have suffered most of the casualties feel that way about it, in any case. The death toll since the fighting began lists 10,460 Americans and only 513 British, so this war is very serious

repver, m an lives will be Hy oy ; nt unanimously opposed to any military Es tis

frightful fiasco to a conclusion, the new understanding Mr. Acheson is said to have reached must involve further appeasement. That could lead to nothing but an eventual settlement on Communist terms, at our expense.

bloody stalemate. - How many more American lives must be sacrificed before our government comes to its senses, and allows the American forces to fight this war in an American way?

The South Likes lke For MANY YEARS, the South was a one-crop region. And traditionally it has been a one-party region. Southern leaders and people elsewhere long have realized that both were bad for the South. The South is no longer a one-crop region. Diversified farming has reduced its dependence on cotton, and industry has made boom towns out of once-sleepy villages. This year, for the first time, there is a good chance the South may break its one-party tradition. There is a good chance that Southerners, if given the opportunity, are ready to participate more fully in both parties, just as they have become full partners in industrial production. he South likes Ike. treet polls by Scripps-Howard newspapers in Southern tities show Dwight Eisenhower is enormously popular among Southern voters—more popular, it appears, than any previous Republican candidate, In three of the cities, most persons polled said they would vote for Ike regardless of the Democratic candidate. In others, his popularity was unquestionable. Most of these people have been voting Democratic all their lives, of course, But they are not welcomed by some of the tight little Republican organizations in the South which never have made any effort to build a real Republican Party there and which have existed only for patronage purposes. Those who so strongly fear new blood in the GOP overlook the fact that the Republican Party is the minority party in this country—and the only way it can win is to attract large numbers of those who have been voting Democratic. : oo, Most observers believe Gen. Eisenhower has a strong chance to break into the Solid South. The evidence indicates if anyone can do it, he can, .» For the same reasons that he appealed to independent voters in the South, he will appeal to independents elsewhere who have been voting Democratic or not voting at all. Ike can be elected.

They Fired and Fell Back HAT HOUSE MAJORITY which last week threatened to scuttle all economic controls quickly agreed with a wiser Senate over the week end and passed a 10-month extension of the present law. The short-lived House rebellion against controls obviously was based largely on disgust at the Truman admin. istration’s failure to enforce a genuine anti-inflationary policy. The administration has been long on alarms about ‘inflation, and short on efforts to check it. But Mr. Truman has been slick at passing the blame to Congress. The 10-month extension of the present law erases the President’s chance to “prove” his case. “© Congress’ decision to extend the law does two things. It makes the machinery available if new inflationary pressures arise. And it gives the next President, whoever he may be, something to work with if he needs it—as he

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WAR... By vival Sitey Ril Britain May Win Korea Bid

WASHINGTON, June 30—Britain’s request for a larger supervisory role in the Korean War probably will be granted. There never has been serious objection in Washington to a British general on our United Nations commandet’s staff, or to close laison with the United Nations committee already here, But there is no disposition here to give Britain or other participating Allies veto power over strictly military decisions. As long as the U. 8. continues to supply most of the military strength and to carry the responsibility, Washington will insist that Gen. Mark Clark, as United Nations commander and his bossés, the U. 8. joint chiefs of staff, have full authority. This arrangement is so obviously necessary that no serious question was raised by our Allies when it was authorized by the United Nations. It has been the rule from the beginning. It will continue to be. That applies, however, only to military deci-

sions relating to Korea and to armistice negotiations.’ Up to United Nations

POLITICAL policy decisions remain with the United Nations. Specifically, the question whether to blockade and bomb China proper— apart from Red Manchurian bases used for a Korean offensive-—is political. Also the question of Korean peace terms—distinct from military armistice terms—is political. The United Nations, or at least the active Allies, can veto American political proposals. We cannot commit them to a counter-attack on China proper, or to stiff Korean peace terms, without their consent. Of course, if Washington decided that the only - effective defense against an all-out Chinese offensive in Korea was to counterattack China and our United Nations Allies vetoed this, we could still act alone or with such Allies as would join us. For practical purposes, that means Britain has the key position politically, She has the largest non-American force in Korea and she is the only other sea and air power capable of material participation in a blockade of China.

Britain Dependent

THERE is a realistic reason why neither Britain nor the other large power, France, could afford to veto an American proposal for a counter-attack on China in a grave Korean emergency. Britain is dependent on us in case Hong Kong is threatened. . We already are supplying most of the arms

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power plants that our British and French critics challenge. They know they have no right or power to curtail the commander's pureiy military authority. - But it is a good campaign issue at home because the war-fearing public does not understand the facts. Therefore the British laborites are able to use it against Prime Minister Churchill.

Churchill ‘Victory’

APPOINTMENT of a British general as Mark Clark's deputy or chief of staff can be made to appear in London as a Churchill “victory” over the headstrong Americans, and as a “restraining” influence for peace. Actually it would merely increase Britiah responsibility without limiting American military authority— which is the reason the British have not wanted such an arrangement before. As to Gen: Clark's ability as supreme commander, the highest British military personage —the Defense Minister, Field Marshal Lord Alexander—after an on-the-spot investigation has just given unqualified praise of his Korean defense. '

What Others Say—

SIX TIMES I ran for President and six times I lost. I think that’s enough.—American Socialist leader Norman Thomas. : * LR IN OUR nation there are over 19,000,000 single men with problems of loneliness as serious as those which beset our early settlers.—Bacholor Soclety of Amdtica Weber Jack Blatt, ¢ I DON'T think that because a person is a member of Congress he should be treated any worse than other people.—Rep. A. 8. Herlong Jr. (D Fla). * © @ WE SHOULD quote to them (the Russians) not from our Washington and Lincoln, but from their Herzen and Turgeniev and Gorki.—Sen. Pat McCarran (D. Nev.). . * ¢ AN ACTRESS who travels about the way I do has the same security as a saflor with a girl In every port.—Movie actress Liz Scott,

MYSTERY . .. By Frederick Woltman

Author of lke ‘Smear’ Won't Reveal Backers

Yup—Flyin' Saucers Are Back ™

CONGRESS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

; INGTON 30—Now that youl ca make heelprints in the asphalt and city editors have to argue with photographers against frying eggs on the sidewalk, our lawgivers are shaking their stumps. They've got hot feet. Anybody who hoofs down Pennsylvania Avenue gets ‘em. ; ; So the Congressmen are operating under a heavy head of steam, trying to get some laws passed in a hurry. They're meeting morning, noon and night, and anybody who orates too long gets a sotto voce hiss, Their hope, by voting all day on the glorious Fourth instead of shooting firecrackers, is to get through with their most urgent business and adjourn for good in time for the Republican National Convention. Their trouble is procrastination. Back when the snows were making a picture postcard of the White House and turning the Capitol grounds into a bobsled course, the gentlemen yammered. They also took long week ends, junkets to far places, and three-hour lunches.

Came the Spring

CAME SPRING, beautiful spring. Our lawgivers spent a lot of time admiring that. They voted themselves a lengthy Easter vacation. They investigated things all over the world and some days they couldn't do business at all on account of no quorum, meaning the statesmen were busy somewhere else. One of them, you will remember, lost. his pants in Spain. Others turned up in Europe, South America, Asfa and various islands in the Pacific. One took his honeymoon (at government expense, according to his critics) in Paris. All this was fun. It also was informative. It undoubtedly made them travelers, but it didn’t 88 many laws. The bills piled up in the storerooms until there hardly was room for more.” Copies of more than 9000 such documents, which their sponsors fondly hoped would become law, began to spill out the doorways. And still the Congressmen dillied. Now we're in-the middle of a record-breaking heat wave produced in equal parts of politicians and mother nature. The statesmen are hoarse from long hours of shouting and red-eyed from lack of sleep. So now they're working. Visitors to the galleries of the House and Senate these days are amazed at the efficiency and dispatch of the gentlemen. They can and

SIDE GLANCES

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Heat Makes House Keep Busy

seconds. In the House the other afternoon they limited themselves to speeches of one minute and a quarter each on a subject as important . as continuation of price controls.

Speeding Up

80 NOW comes the Democratic Policy Committee of the Senate, trying to speed up the proceedings some more, by weeding out the bills that can't be passed easily and making sure the appropriation measures are adopted before too many payless paydays face government clerks.

Sen. Ernest W. McFarland (D. Ariz), the Democratic floor leader, announced the results. He said he hoped before this week was finished, a good many bills would get sandwiched in between the money spending measures. By Saturday night, he said, the Senate would be ready to quit so the Republicans could hasten to the mighty, air-conditioned hall in the center of the Chicago Stockyards. “You mean you are going to recess?” demanded a reporter. “Or adjourn?” “I'm in favor of adjournment,” said the gentleman from Arizona. He meant quitting for good and shutting up the 82d Congress forevermore, even if a few Jittle old bills never do become law. Betting odds are 50-50 he doesn’t get his wish and Congress returns in August for more of the same.

BE SATISFIED ¢

To touch a little blade of grass . . . or see the flowers grow . . . is really quite a privilege + + + that most of us all know . . . to hear a bird sing tender songs . . . or smell the new mown hay . . . are things that are quite wonderful . . . and naught for them could pay . . . to greet each new day with a smile . . . and look up at the sun . . . are privileges that God has sent . . . to each and everyone . . . to feel the bliss of tender lips . . . that kiss for you alone . . . what more could be so wonderful . . . than love to have and own . . . and I have often wondered why . . . with all this by our side . . . we humans go in search for more . . . we're never satisfied.

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ers for the casualties, in death, that would have been the price. His declaration he deplored intolerance and savored “education” as a cure must be coupled with his opposition to federal aid to education (despite his coming from that source) and it fully raises the suspicion that he is truly the “No Deal” candidate—that he will oppose every proposed remedy and offer no substitute. At Detroit, as at Abilene, he did not come to grips with the great problems of the day. What is more distressing is the fact he gave no evidence of recognizing, much less comprehend. ing them, : ¢ © ¢ FOR ONE, I would like Ike if he would discuss, with utter candor and perception, the problem of how to Mve in our traditional freedom with the great combinations of wealth and men that seem necessary to make our economy function. I would like him if he would tell the people the world tensions won't be soon solved; that we have to pay for our peace and security —and that this generation has no right to live for itself »alone. . I would like a candidate who would call for

the spartan spirit this age demands—one who.

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Censures Women

MR. EDITOR: . We must all admit women are contributing much to education, government, music, the sciences, arts, etc. And last but not least, they are good mothers, wives and homemakers. It is rather disappointing, however, to walk inthe streets and see some women parading up iid down with cigarets in their hands. Ladies, if you must use tobacco, don’t you think it would be so much nicer to smoke under cover? I am sure many men will agree that it certainly doesn’t look too nice—any more than it looks good for 8 Woman Fy hold up a bar.

WHO CAN respect the woman who is seen slopping up beer and liquors at a bar? Women of this caliber make it look bad for decent, eultured ones. The Times often carries news items of children who are abandoned by their mothers. Where are they usually found? In a bar, of course. : I am sure most modern women will agree with me. I say this because the violators usually term a woman who does not lower herself to their level as being old-fashioned, or not modern. This type of modernization is for the

birds. -J. C."A., Oty How Mothers Feel MR. EDITOR:

I can’t help but comment on the remark Harry Truman made, saying thers will be no war in Europe this summer or he would not have allowed his daughter, Margaret, to go. What about how mothers feel in his sending their sons over there, sons who don’t even know what they're fighting for? If all the old men— who are too old to fight-were thrown into a ring and allowed to slug it out, they wouldn't be so quick to send our boys to war. Mr. Truman should have lots to think about when he is thrown out of office. The lives of our boys, alone, should haunt him, «Mrs. L. B, City

By Galbraith SCAPEGOAT... By Fred W. Perkins

Wage Stabilization Board Shakeup Looms

NEW YORK, June 30-—There is no mystery about Joseph P. Kamp, whose notorious smear pamphlet against Gen. Dwight Efsenhower is flooding the nation. The mystery is— Who's behind Joseph P. Kamp? For years, Mr. Kamp has been dishing out pamphlets full of distortions and phony accusations. They seem aimed principally at appealing to ignorance, fear, religious and race prejudice. One of the pet Kamp techniques is to pin the Communist or un-American label on people he was out to get— regardless of the facts. But Kamp always has kept mum about-his backers. Twice

{ he risked jail rather than tell

congressional committees, 7 . » id THE FIRST TIME, Kamp went to prison for four months. The second, his contempt of Congress conviction was reversed on a technicality and his retrial ended In an ac quittal, Today, both the Eisenhower and Taft forces wonder who is footing Kamp's bill. Distribution of his 16-page blast at the General represents one of the widest mall circula-

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Called “Headlines and What's Behind Them,” the anti-Eisenhower tract is geared for readers who don't g0 beneath the headlines. It's loaded with anti-Jewish over tones and wild innuendoes.

Nearly two months ago, the Volunteers for Taft condemned “Headlines” as “scurrilous, un-Amefican and defamatory.” No “friends or well-wishers of Sen. Taft or any good American,” they said, would tolerate it. A few days ago, Sen. Taft himself denounced “smearing tactics” used against his rival. The Senator declared he was “particularly disgusted” by the Kamp pamphlet. ’ r " . NEVERTHELESS, it's still going out in wholesale quantities. If its financial sponsors are hidden, Kamp jsn't. a A skillful telephone fundraiser, he operates through the so-called Constitutional Faucational League at 342 Madi son Ave. in New York. The “League,” so far as is known, has never made public a Ast

of directors, committeemcn or

no Rap one pamphlet, purported to expose what he called the “Jewish Gestapo” in America. In another, he “un-

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“Sidney Hillmdén and Anna Rosenberg fathered ‘Ike-For-President’.” (The fact is, Sidney Hillman died in 1946.) ” » s

ACCORDING to another headline, “Moscow Thinks Ike Can Get The Vote.”

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\ WASHINGTON, June 30— Final votes in the House make it certain that the Wage Stabilization Board must become a “different sort of an animal” soon after the riddled new Defense Production Act becomes law, . The wage board, created by a presidential order, is blamed by many Congressmen for the chain of events that. brought on the Steel strike. The board handed down three months ago the recommendations that the CIO Steelworkers Union accepted and the steel industry rejected.

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AMONG other results were the resignation of former Defense Mobilizer Charles EK.

* Wilson, seizure of the industry

by President Truman, a re-

versal of the President’s action

by the Supreme Court — and fually. 8 one 2, the shutown lowly strang the nation’s industries. ling The House verdict is an amendment sponsored by Rep. Wingate H. Lucas (D. Tex.)

unions—not CIO or AFL. Under the House formula, the board's authority would be restricted to regulations affecting wages and salaries, under Supervision of the Director of ¢ Stabilization. It would have no power to settle labor-manage-ment disputes of any character, or to recommend how they should be settled.

the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The House

dispute settlements when both parties agree to submit them and the President refers them

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