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The IPR Report
—and of its star, Owen Lattimore—has at last been reduced to a painstaking, well-documented and dispassionate record. : The record is the result of an 18-month investigation by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. This subcommittee’s report, which should once and for all dispel any doubt about the true role of Mr. Lattimore and the IPR, is a 226-page distillation of more than 5000 pages of testimony-and- supporting documents. The job done by the subcommitttee in outlining the true nature of the IPR was roughly comparable to diagramming a disease-laden miasma rising from a swamp. For, as Chairman Pat McCarran pointed out, much of the testimony taken by the subcommittee was evasive and replete with bald lies. A great deal of the credit for the accomplishment of the subcommittee belongs to its special counsel, Robert Morris. Mr. Morris worked long and hard in compiling and evaluating the record of the IPR and Mr. Lattimore. He deserves the thanks of every patriotic American who has ever wondered why the great country of
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THE REPORT does a lot to answer that question. I shows how the IPR was penetrated and perverted by Communists. It describes the grisly hatchet work that forced honest and capable men out of the State Department because they couldn’t swallow a “soft” policy toward Communist China, It even details the thorough job done by IPR in obtaining a near monopoly on book reviews dealing with the Far East, constituting a “virtual screening and . censorship board” for the American people. Mr, Lattimore replied to the charges contained in the report with a denial and, if you'll pardon the expression, one good, healthy red herring, to wit: ~* “It is,” said Mr. Lattimore, “a matter of great regret to me that the transcript of my testimony before the committee, which bears on its face, I believe, the refutation
press by the committee.” That is a lot of baloney. Mr. Lattimore testified for 12 days in open sessions which were well covered by reporters. ‘Moreover, the transcript of his testimony has been made - available to anyone who wants to see it. Literally scores of reporters—including one from The Times—have spent days poring over the transcript. No one who sought to-read the record has been denied permission. In his statement, Mr. Lattimore indicated a willingness to assist “any inquiry that may be considered necessary by any responsible authority.” That's fine, because the Justice Department has promised “promptly” to take up the question of whether Mr. Lattimore committed perjury before “he committee. :
Asian Alliances
HE UNITED STATES, Australia and New Zealand have “signed mutual security pacts. So there are sound reasons why their representatives should get together to discuss strategi¢ problems. J es It is most unfortunate, however, that the impression has been created that the August meeting in Honolulu is intended to draft long-range defense plans for the whole Pacific-Asian region and to review the Korean deadlock. The yellow and brown races of Asia are suspicious enough of the white man’s motives without our doing anything which might make it appear that we regard the defense of that area as exclusively a white man's problem. Nor should it be overlooked that the Philippines and Siam are contributing as much, if not more, to the Korean War as New Zealand and Australia.
undertaken to defend Australia and New Zealand against foreign attack because the British Empire no longer is in a position to do so. But this arrangement cannot be regarded as strengthening our position in Asia, nor are these pacts in any sense a Pacific counferpart of the North, Atlantic Alliance. If the free nations of that area are to take concerted action for their common defense, such an alliance would have to be built around Philippines, Japan, Formosa and Siam to have much meaning. The Korean War might have been avoided if the United States had armed the South Koreans while there was time " and opportunity. The longer the formation of a real Pacific alliance is delayed, the less tenable our position in the Pacific is likely to becomé: When the governments of Nationalist China, the Philippines and South Korea wanted to form an anti-Communist alliance before disaster overtook that area, Secretary of State Acheson dismissed the proposal as “premature.” That ill-advised judgment is water over the dam, but it would be folly compounded to delay a move in that direction until too late.
‘Big Hat, No Cattle’
MEMBERS of the British Parliament who are demanding an equal voice with the United States in the conduct of the Korean War haven't offered to share in the fighting . ‘on the same basis. Moreover, while the British Socialists boast that they were responsible for Gen. MacArthur's recall, they might add that their limited war doctrine also wds responsible for. ‘the seemingly endless stalemate in which we find ourselves today. : Their free advice hasn't suggested any honorable way out of that dilemma. \ > : Somehow this situation reminds us of the loud-talking ranchman who applied to a Western banker for a loan. The
rancher as a good credit risk. The chief pondered the - question a moment, and replied: : a
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FLYING . . . By Frederick C. Othman Airline Luggage Limit Poses Sartorial . Problem at Convention
. CHICAGO, July 5—~How American Airlines figures I can last a month in Chicago with 44 pounds of baggage, including- a typewriter, I do not know. : The solution, you may say, is take the Pennsylvania Railroad, or the B. & O. which al- | low a wayfarer to carry all the shirts he may reasonably need. It is not as simple as that. Every train leaving Washington today is jammed with politicians. They've got all the
staterooms. These are loaded with cracked ice in the wash
basins and jugs in the lug-
gage racks. A Pullman drawing room so equipped leads inevitably to calling the porter for a onelegged table and inaugurating games of chance. This is a poor environment for an innocent young man like me. Once I did go to a political convention on such a train; aboard were evil ‘companions from Capitol Hill. I detrained at LaSalle Street station sleepless, bleary-eyed and bankrupt.
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flying machine, where there is nothing to drink but canned pineapple juice and no opportunity for a deuces-wild poker game on account of the seating arrangements. So far the last two days my bride and I have : been worrying about those 44 pounds. : She suggested a nylon shirt,
which I could wash in the
bathroom every night. I asked her if she'd ever tried a nylon shirt at a Republican national convention, or a Democratic one, either, I have seen some poor devils in these at such fracases and most of the time they are on the verge of collapse. 3 This is because nylon when wet, which it soon gets among the politicos, is airproof, like an inner tube. It grows hotter and hotter until its victim repairs to a refrigerated cock-
tail lounge, and there he gets the sniffles because of suddenly growing cold, while remaining wet. Once the management sent me on a lengthy trip to Europe and I solved the shirt problem by plunking down $26 (of the firm’s money) in Rome . for a pair of long-distance silk shirts. One was deep blue and gray; the other was black and gray. Couldn't possibly show the dirt. I wore these on alternate ' days for weeks, because the laundresses of the time. were fresh out of soap, ' and this worked out fairly well. Fortunately, it was winter.
Chicago Heat JULY IN CHICAGO is something else. What it can do in two hours to a shirt and the fellow inside is a piteous thing. So I got the lightest suitcase I could find and in it I jammed eight shirts, eight sets of underwear, eight pairs of
socks “and a dozen handkerchiefs, for’ sweat-mopping purposes. I also included two lightweight suits which Mrs. O. insisted should be freshly pressed. This, in my opinion,
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was a sorry waste of money; I'll get off this flying machine wrinkled and I'll stay that way until the last Democrat goes home along around Aug. 4. The trouble with the 44 pounds of airplane baggage is that you've got to discard all the small comforts, like house -slippers, bathrobes, and even hairbrushes. One comb is enough. I can’t even take along a spare pair of shoes." My guess is I'll have to buy some spare haberdashery on State St. and then attempt to get the laundry to mail it home for me. This sometimes has worked. Sometimes: my new union suits just disappeared.
Good Old Days IF IT WEREN'T for my . typewriter, 18 pounds ine¢luding case, I do believe I could get by. It must have been pleasant to be a newspaper reporter in the good old days, when all one needed was a pencil and a pad of paper. Of course, then, he didn’t have to worry about the sticky rules of the flying people, and if he were late with a story he could always blame the telegraph operator who couldn’t read his writing.
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POLITICAL ROUNDUP . . . By Irving Leibowitz
Hoosier Taft Backers Fear Loss Of Issues if lke Is Candidate
CHICAGO, July $—Indiana’s top Republican leaders are staking their political careers
- here on the nomination of Sen. Robert A. Taft
for President. >
Should Dwight D. Eisenhower walk away with the prize, ‘the Republican high command is expected to resign.
State Chairman Cale J. Holder, Indianapolis attorney, is typical of the GOP. leadership, He feels “so strongly in favor of Sen. Taft, he would not consent to remain state ‘boss if Republicans in Indiana campaigned under the Eisenhower banners. Contrary to published reports, Indiana's top Republicans have nothing against Gen. Eisen-
hower personally. They rather admire his abilities as a General and respect his forth-
rightness. The “inside” story on why key Hoosier Republicans favor Sen. Taft has not been explained fully. First, local GOP leaders regard Sen. Taft as “an old friend and neighbor.” They admire his abilities in the Senate and they were en-
thused when he was re-elected Senator in Ohio _
by a tremendous margin,
More Reasons
YET, THERE was a much more fundamen-* tal reason for placing Indiana GOP leaders strongly—almost fanatically-—on the Taft team. In politics, where “friendship” frequently is based on the principle of “what can you do for me now,” it isn't often that a group of sea--soned politicians would turn their back on some-
_, one like Gen. Eisenhower who: &
One: Is pictured as having universal appeal. Two: Has captured most current popularity polls. Three: Is presented as “the one Republican who can beat the Democrats.” : Politicians like nothing better than winning elections. The old political saying that some politicians would rather lose with a candidate they like than win with one they don’t like is no longer true. ___The payoff in politics is patronage—jobs. for.
the thousands of Political workers. There is little tronage that goes to a loser. In re face of this, Indiana’s top Republicans remain ardent Taft backers. - 5 Top Republican leaders here, including Sen, Homer E. Capehart! State Chairman Holder, National Committeeman Ralph Gates, honestly believe the Republican Party cannot win in Indiana with Gen. Eisenhower at the ‘head of the ticket.
Two Victories : EVER SINCE Mr. Holder took a thoroughly defeated and dispirited Republican Party in 1948 and scored two smashing election victories—the mayoralty tritmphs in 1951 and the Capehart win in 1950—the GOP has campaigned almost exclusively on the “blunders” of the Democratic administration's foreign policy. 5 This constant attacking of the “secret agreements” at Yalta, Potsdam and Tehran was the big gun that sunk the Democrats. The Republican leaders who formulated this policy and made it work with election ‘victories believe foreign policy will not be an issue if Gen. Eisenhower is the candidate.. Since the Genefal was a part of the administration’s foreign policy program -— and still believes in the administration's North Ate lantic Treaty Organization and foreign aid program, local. Republican leaders feel they will have lost their most effective campaign issue if he is the candidate.
Fear Losing Election THAT'S WHY the Republican high come mand in Indiana is backing Taft all the way. For if he loses here, they feel they will lose back home. Should Gen. Eisenhower emerge as the vice tor, a whole new slate of pro-Eisenhower people will take over control of the GOP in Indiana, including George Craig, candidate for Governor; Eugene Pulliam, publisher of the Star and News; Elmer (Little Doc) Sherwood; behind the scenes
politician and Secretary of State Leland Smith,
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Sen. Capehart Predicts Ticket Of Taft and MacArthur for GOP
WASHINGTON, July 5—In- : diana’s Republican Senators and Congressmen are off to the races today. They will be in Chicago en masse for what long has been billed as “The Fight of the
Century”—the GOP convention.
battle. between Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Taft. Most confident man leaving here was Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind), who, presided over the Indiana State Con-. vention which pledged its delegates to Sen. Taft. “There has been no defec-. tion among 30 of the 32 delegates and there will be none,” the senior Senator from, Indiana said. “Gene Pulliam will vote for Ike, ‘but his may be the only Gen. Eisenhower vote from Indiana. For I understand. the other Marion County delegate, Willlam Hutcheson, isn’t likely to attend the convention at all. .
“80 THE VOTE in Indiana may be 31 to one, as all alternates are Taft men and it wouldn't surprise me if Sen. Taft gets the nomination on the very first ballot.” Sen. Capehart also predicted the vice presidential nominee, on the Taft ticket, will be Gen. Douglas MacArthur. If that turns out to be the case, the Hoosier Senator can say he is
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a real political prophet. When the General returned to the capital, after being fired from his Japan-Korean command by President Truman, Sen. Capehart said then he would be on the GOP ticket in 1952.
“It will be Sen. Taft and
Gen. MacArthur, or Gen. Mac-
“Arthur and Sen. Taft, and I:
don’t care much who heads the ticket because it is a sure winner,” Sen. Capehart said at that time. Now he is “all-out” for Sen. Taft for first place and has been working and talking the - Taft candidacy up for many months. Should the Republicans win this fall, Sen. Capehart will head the powerful Senate Banking and Currency Committee. = This committee handles all economic controls legislation. It was because he is the ranking minority member now that his name was attached to the price controls amendment which President Truman has assailed ad inflationary. ’ ‘
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ans en THAT THE SENATOR, who is a convention delegate, believes it will not last too long is shown from the fact he has booked passage to Europe on the French liner “Liberte” which sails from New York next Friday. He will. be accompanied by Mrs. Capehart and Attorney and Mrs. William H. Krieg, Indianapolis. They will take a station wagon and tour all
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Europe, including Yugoslavia, and be back Aug. 25 according to present plans. “It will be the first real vacation I have had in all my life,” Sen. Capehart said. Because he was an outspoken Taft man and supposed to be opposed to the nomination of George Craig for governor, Sen. Capehart has had the heat turned on by the Pulliam faction of the Republican Party. : . a SINCE THE CONVENTION, where Mr. Craig was nominated, it has been blasting against GOP State Chairman Cale Holder. So far Sen, Wil liam E. Jenner, who was re‘nominated without opposition, has escaped. He is a Taft fnan. Mr. Holder is his man, and Sen. Capehart was carrying out the Jenner program to which Mr. Pulliam was so opposed because it- wasn’t his. This group gave Rep. Charles A, Halleck, Rensselaer, “the business” by keeping him off the list of convention dele gates on the grounds he came so late he missed the boat. Mr. Halleck is fighting mad about that. Although he always has said he was a Taft man, he never issued any public statements to that effect. He is going to Chicago and may be working for Ike. For if Sen. Taft is nominated and elected, Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R. 0.) a Taft manager, and not Mr. Halleck would be in line for the speakership or majority leader in the House.
POLITICS . . . By Peter Edson
Both Parties Lean to Machine Candidates
CHICAGO, July 5—On the eve of the presidential nominating conventions in Chicago, both Republican and Democratic parties have placed themselves in position to take machine candidates in place of the people's choices. If public opinion polls mean a thing this year, they have indicated congistently that in the minds of the voters Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Estes Kefauver had a slight edge over their opponents. The professional politicians, however, have indicated plainly they wouldn't take Estes and they didn’t like Ike. This hgs beer shown in most of the states where convention delegates have been picked by the state convention method. These states went largely to favorite sons or national machine favorites. The situation in the two major parties differs ‘on this point, Republican Old Guard machine strength has been concentrated behind Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. In state after state the GOP bosses who have kept the party organization together through 20 lean—for them-—political years, have lined up behind Sen. Taft. This is ‘particularly true in the South. MA » ” THE RESULT IS Sen. Taft enters the Chicago convention with an initial advantage of from 200 votes—his own count —~down to the 75-to-100 lead which more neutral and disinterested scorers give him. But it is entirely possible that Sen. Taft could win the nomination on the first or an early ballot. x - Sen. Taft won this advantage In the same way Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York won it in 1948. This was by superior organization in the
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after he won re-election to the Senate in 1950. And his managers have been in the field picking . up delegates. - This, also, was the way Jim Farley won the nomination for F. D, Roosevelt in 1932. Backers of Gen. Eisenhower got into the business late. Part of the delay was in getting a clear statement from their candicate that he was available. » i" " WINNING THE presidency is done in two parts. The first step is to win the convention delegates who have the power to vote the nomination. The second step is to win support from a majority of the voters who elect the President. There is still a chance Gen, Eisenhower can get the nome ination. Wendell Wilkie was the Republican people’s choice in 1940, He wasn’t given a chance by the professional politicians who assembled for the GOP convention in Philadelphia that year, But he won over Sen. Taft on the sixth ballot. Ike's managers think their man can do that this year. 8 In the Democratic race, the professional political ssed have shown no sitancy in letting it be kno that they do not share the public support for Sen. Kefauver. . Partof this stems from what
he did to the big eity profess -
sional gamblers, Scott Luecad of Illinois, who blames his 1950 defeat in the Senate on Mr. Kefauver's arime ‘expose,
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